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Apocalypse Jukebox - The End of the World in American Popular Music (Paperback)
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Apocalypse Jukebox - The End of the World in American Popular Music (Paperback)
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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.
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