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OverviewHistories 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 readers a front-row seat to a dynamic time for the music industry, countercultural politics, and youth culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James M. CarterPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9781978829398ISBN 10: 1978829396 Pages: 222 Publication Date: 25 March 2024 Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Postwar America, the Revolution in Higher Education, and Popular Music 2 “The Sound of the Sixties”: Popular Music and College Campuses 3 “I Blundered My Way Through”: The College Impresario, Fall 1965–Fall 1967 4 “They’re Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower”: Fall 1967–Fall 1968 5 The “Americanization of Rock”: Spring 1969–Fall 1970 Conclusion Appendix A: Bands/Artists at Drew University, 1967–1971 Appendix B: Bands/Artists at Stony Brook University, 1967–1971 Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsRockin' In the Ivory Tower offers a welcome entry into a field of study that is only just beginning to flower. --Kenneth Womack author of The Beatles and the 1960's: Reception, Revolution, and Social Change The research and writing are exciting; Rockin' In the Ivory Tower fills an important gap in the historiography of Rock music and the Sixties. --Dewar MacLeod author of Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springste Rockin' in the Ivory Tower offers a welcome entry into a field of study that is only just beginning to flower. --Kenneth Womack author of Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans The research and writing are exciting; Rockin' in the Ivory Tower fills an important gap in the historiography of rock music and the sixties. --Dewar MacLeod author of Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springste Author InformationJAMES M. CARTER is an associate professor of history at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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