Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music - Couverture souple

Whitelock, Edward; Janssen, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1593762216 ISBN 13 : 9781593762216

Editeur : Soft Skull, 2009

Synopsis

From its indefinite beginnings through its broad commercialization and endless reinterpretation, American rock-and-roll music has been preoccupied with an end-of-the-world mentality that extends through the whole of American popular music. In Apocalypse Jukebox, Edward Whitelock and David Janssen trace these connections through American music genres, uncovering a mix of paranoia and hope that characterizes so much of the nation’s history.
From the book’s opening scene, set in the American South during a terrifying 1833 meteor shower, the sense of doom is both palpable and inescapable; a deep foreboding that shadows every subsequent development in American popular music and, as Whitelock and Janssen contend, stands as a key to understanding and explicating America itself.
Whitelock and Janssen examine the diversity of apocalyptic influences within North American recorded music, focusing in particular upon a number of influential performers, including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Devo, R.E.M., Sleater-Kinney, and Green Day. In Apocalypse Jukebox, Whitelock and Janssen reveal apocalypse as a permanent and central part of the American character while establishing rock-and-roll as a true reflection of that character.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ed Whitelock is a professor of English at Gordon State College in Barnesville, GA, just 106 miles southwest of Philomath. He is co-author, with David Janssen, of Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music.

David Janssen is an Associate Professor of English at Gordon College and associate editor for Studies in Popular Culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Soft Skull
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1593762216
• ISBN 13: 9781593762216
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible