Nicholas Tochka, Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America.
Tochka informs the reader in a non-patronising nuanced way that America’s sense of values and truths are significantly influenced by purveyors of popular music (5). The prologue helps us to consider if there is a relationship between popular music, for example rock music, and acceptance of a particular political ideology. The book enables the thought process, can pop artists or rock bands, influence large swathes of society’s political identity in the long-term. Chapter one could easily be c...
Authors
- Benjamin C. Duke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-6889)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of American Studies
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4000/13qwb
- Primary Topic
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00