Beschreibung
This book examines the American Sixties, and how that periods socio-political essence was reflected and refracted in certain forms of the periods music. Its five main chapters bear the names of familiar musical categories: Folk, Rock, Jazz, Avant-Garde, Classical. But the books real subject mattertreated at length in the Prologue and the Epilogue but spread throughout all that comes betweenis the Sixties tangled mess of hopes and frustrations, of hungers as much for self-identity as for self-indulgence, of crises of conscience that bothered Americans of almost all ages and regardless of political persuasion.
Autorenporträt
James Wierzbicki lives in the Australian town of Coober Pedy. For twenty year, he was the classical music critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other American newspapers, and for another twenty years a professor at the University of California-Irvine, the University of Michigan, and the University of Sydney.
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Springer Verlag GmbH
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69121 Heidelberg
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E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com
