Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America

Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 411
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ISBN-10 : 9781421444987
ISBN-13 : 1421444984
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Book Synopsis Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America by : Richard Aquila

Download or read book Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America written by Richard Aquila and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author tells an unconventional history of rock & roll in the early 1960s-one that argues that Buddy Holly's death in 1959 was not "the day the music died," that teenagers of the early 1960s were not as rebellious as we'd like to believe, and that the consensus politics and Cold War culture of this era were much broader based than we usually assume"--


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