Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America

by Nicholas Tochka

Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By the late 1980s, rock music had acquired a dizzying array of political labels. These claims about its political significance shared one common thread: that the music could set you free.

Rocking in the Free World explains how Americans came to believe they had learned the truth about rock 'n' roll,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197566510
• ISBN13: 9780197566510
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"