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Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower: Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties
Authored by James M. Carter
Narrated by Patrick Lawlor
0:00 Intro
0:03 Introduction
36:59 1. Postwar America, the Revolution in Higher Education, and Popular Music
43:41 Outro
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Histories of American rock music and the 1960s counterculture typically focus on the same few places: Woodstock, Monterey, Altamont. Yet there was also a very active college circuit that brought edgy acts like the Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground to different metropolitan regions and smaller towns all over the country. These campus concerts were often programmed, promoted, and reviewed by students themselves, and their diverse tastes challenged narrow definitions of rock music.
Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower takes a close look at two smaller universities, Drew in New Jersey and Stony Brook on Long Island, to see how the culture of rock music played an integral role in student life in the late 1960s. Analyzing campus archives and college newspapers, historian James Carter traces connections between rock fandom and the civil rights protests, free speech activism, radical ideas, lifestyle transformations, and anti–war movements that revolutionized universities in the 1960s. Furthermore, he finds that these progressive students refused to segregate genres like folk, R&B, hard rock, and pop. Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower gives listeners a front–row seat to a dynamic time for the music industry, countercultural politics, and youth culture.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James M. Carter is an associate professor of history at Drew University, where his specializations include U.S. foreign policy and the rise of the counterculture. His book Inventing Vietnam is an analysis of the failed nation–building effort undertaken by the United States in Vietnam and how that failure led to the war.
Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen–Up Award, and many Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
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Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Published on: July 4, 2023
ISBN: 9798350846485
Duration: 7 hr, 16 min
Genres: History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), Music / Ethnomusicology, Music / Genres & Styles / Rock, Social Science / Popular Culture
