{"product_id":"rocking-in-the-free-world-9780197566510","title":"Rocking in the Free World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRocking in the Free World explains how Americans came to believe they had learned the truth about rock 'n' roll, a truth shaped by the Cold War anxieties of the Fifties, the countercultural revolutions (and counter-revolutions) of the Sixties and Seventies, and the end-of-history triumphalism of the Eighties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRocking 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. * Danielle Fosler-Lussier, author of Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments Prologue: Popular Music as Political Theory  1 How Rock 'n' Roll Invented the Teenager 2 How Americans Rocked Cairo (and London, and Moscow, and Tehran, and ...) 3 How Trash Became Art 4 How the Rock Counterculture Dug Deeper  5 How Songwriters Revealed Our Inner Truth 6 How Rock Got Real Again 7 How We Taught the World to Sing Epilogue: Rocking in the Free World References Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732650930519,"sku":"9780197566510","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rocking-in-the-free-world-9780197566510","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}