On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

by Dennis McNally

Book Overview

On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan.

The book begins with America's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619024497
• ISBN13: 9781619024496
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"