Nicholas Tochka, Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America.
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: 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...
DOI: 10.4000/13qwb
Author: Benjamin Duke
Language: English
Topic: Music History and Culture
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409415813