Nicholas Tochka writes about the politics of postwar music-making in Eastern Europe and the Americas. In 2016, Oxford University Press published his first book, Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Socialist Albania. He is currently completing one project on citizenship in postsocialist Europe, and another about the invention of the Sixties in the United States. He works at the Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne in Australia, and plays both bass and guitar.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Popular Music as Political Theory 1 How Rock 'n' Roll Invented the Teenager2 How Americans Rocked Cairo (and London, and Moscow, and Tehran, and ...)3 How Trash Became Art4 How the Rock Counterculture Dug Deeper 5 How Songwriters Revealed Our Inner Truth6 How Rock Got Real Again7 How We Taught the World to SingEpilogue: Rocking in the Free WorldReferencesIndex

Rocking in the Free World invites the reader to re-assess the mythical stories we tell about rock 'n' roll, freedom, and rebellion-and to see more accurately rock's artistic, social, and political impacts. Warmly recommended.

Nicholas Tochka writes about the politics of postwar music-making in Eastern Europe and the Americas. In 2016, Oxford University Press published his first book, Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Socialist Albania. He is currently completing one project on citizenship in postsocialist Europe, and another about the invention of the Sixties in the United States. He works at the Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne in Australia, and plays both bass and guitar.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Popular Music as Political Theory 1 How Rock 'n' Roll Invented the Teenager2 How Americans Rocked Cairo (and London, and Moscow, and Tehran, and ...)3 How Trash Became Art4 How the Rock Counterculture Dug Deeper 5 How Songwriters Revealed Our Inner Truth6 How Rock Got Real Again7 How We Taught the World to SingEpilogue: Rocking in the Free WorldReferencesIndex

Rocking in the Free World invites the reader to re-assess the mythical stories we tell about rock 'n' roll, freedom, and rebellion-and to see more accurately rock's artistic, social, and political impacts. Warmly recommended.

Nicholas Tochka writes about the politics of postwar music-making in Eastern Europe and the Americas. In 2016, Oxford University Press published his first book, Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Socialist Albania. He is currently completing one project on citizenship in postsocialist Europe, and another about the invention of the Sixties in the United States. He works at the Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne in Australia, and plays both bass and guitar.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Popular Music as Political Theory 1 How Rock 'n' Roll Invented the Teenager2 How Americans Rocked Cairo (and London, and Moscow, and Tehran, and ...)3 How Trash Became Art4 How the Rock Counterculture Dug Deeper 5 How Songwriters Revealed Our Inner Truth6 How Rock Got Real Again7 How We Taught the World to SingEpilogue: Rocking in the Free WorldReferencesIndex

Rocking in the Free World invites the reader to re-assess the mythical stories we tell about rock 'n' roll, freedom, and rebellion-and to see more accurately rock's artistic, social, and political impacts. Warmly recommended.