Rock and Roll, Social Protest, and Authenticity

Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Explorations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvKurt Torell

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This book explores the relationships between rock and roll, social protest, and authenticity to consider how rock and roll could function as social protest music. The author begins by discussing the nature and origins of rock and roll and the nature of social protest and social protest music within the wider context of the evolution of the commercial music industry and the social and technological infrastructure developed for the mass dissemination of popular music. This discussion is followed by an examination of the causes of the public disapproval originally expressed toward rock and roll, and how they illuminate its social protest and subversive quality. By further investigating the nature of authenticity and its relationship to social protest and to commercialization, the author considers how social protest and commercialization are antithetical. This conclusion, if correct, has broad implications for human culture in advanced industrial society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-03-17
Mått160 x 228 x 21 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFor the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
Antal sidor190
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793655639

Tillhör följande kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Musikhistoria inom Kultur
Populärmusik inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion

Introduction: “But the Man Can’t Bust Our Music” (Columbia Records Print Ad, 1968)Chapter 1: The Nature and Origins of Rock and RollChapter 2: The Influence of RecordsChapter 3: The Nature and Influence of Commercial RadioChapter 4: Copyright, ASCAP, BMI, and PayolaChapter 5: The Folk “Revival”Chapter 6: Rock and Roll as Social ProtestChapter 7: Authenticity and Social ProtestChapter 8: ConclusionReferences

A serious academic analysis of the contradictions between rock’s commercialism and its spirit of countercultural resistance. Writing in the tradition of Michael Lydon, Paul Hirsch, and Serge Denisoff, Torell connects the vexed marriage of authenticity and imitation in American popular culture to larger issues in western philosophy and art. This book reaches far beyond rock and social protest, too: important reading for those also interested in the commodification of folk, punk, and hip hop.