Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981 Volume 12

by Eric Drott

In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May '68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the world. Eric Drott examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May '68 on a wide variety of music in France, from the initial shock of 1968 through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520268970
• ISBN13: 9780520268975
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"