{"product_id":"rocking-in-the-free-world-popular-music-and-the-politics-of-freedom-in-postwar-america-9780197566510","title":"Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nicholas Tochka\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Rock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProgressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By the late 1980s, rock music had acquired a dizzying array of political labels. These claims about its political significance shared one common thread: that the music could set you free. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eRocking in the Free World\u003c\/em\u003e 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. How did rock 'n' roll become enmeshed with so many different competing ideas about freedom? And what does that story reveal about the promise-and the limits-of rock music as a political force in postwar America?","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45047054368919,"sku":"9780197566510","price":3697.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780197566510.webp?v=1769219577","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/rocking-in-the-free-world-popular-music-and-the-politics-of-freedom-in-postwar-america-9780197566510","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}