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Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
Englisch
University of Illinois Presserschienen am11.02.2016
Derided for its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a price in anxiety. Prosperity existed under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked worry over threats at home and abroad. But even dread could not quell the revolutionary changes taking place in virtually every form of mainstream music. Music historian James Wierzbicki sheds light on how the Fifties' pervasive moods affected its sounds. Moving across genres established--pop, country, opera--and transfigured--experimental, rock, jazz--Wierzbicki delves into the social dynamics that caused forms to emerge or recede, thrive or fade away. Red scares and white flight, sexual politics and racial tensions, technological progress and demographic upheaval--the influence of each rooted the music of this volatile period to its specific place and time. Yet Wierzbicki also reveals the host of underlying connections linking that most apprehensive of times to our own uneasy present.mehr

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KlappentextDerided for its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a price in anxiety. Prosperity existed under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked worry over threats at home and abroad. But even dread could not quell the revolutionary changes taking place in virtually every form of mainstream music. Music historian James Wierzbicki sheds light on how the Fifties' pervasive moods affected its sounds. Moving across genres established--pop, country, opera--and transfigured--experimental, rock, jazz--Wierzbicki delves into the social dynamics that caused forms to emerge or recede, thrive or fade away. Red scares and white flight, sexual politics and racial tensions, technological progress and demographic upheaval--the influence of each rooted the music of this volatile period to its specific place and time. Yet Wierzbicki also reveals the host of underlying connections linking that most apprehensive of times to our own uneasy present.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-252-08156-9
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2016
Erscheinungsdatum11.02.2016
ReiheMusic in American Life
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht454 g
Artikel-Nr.36171379
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue1 The Pop Music Mainstream2 Rock 'n' Roll3 Jazz4 Hollywood5 Broadway6 Opera7 The Classical Music Mainstream8 Modernists9 MavericksEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndexmehr