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Music in the Age of Anxiety - American Music in the Fifties (Hardcover)
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Music in the Age of Anxiety - American Music in the Fifties (Hardcover)
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Derided for its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a
price in anxiety. Prosperity existed under the shadow of a mushroom
cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked worry over
threats at home and abroad. But even dread could not quell the
revolutionary changes taking place in virtually every form of
mainstream music. Music historian James Wierzbicki sheds light on
how the Fifties' pervasive moods affected its sounds. Moving across
genres established--pop, country, opera--and
transfigured--experimental, rock, jazz--Wierzbicki delves into the
social dynamics that caused forms to emerge or recede, thrive or
fade away. Red scares and white flight, sexual politics and racial
tensions, technological progress and demographic upheaval--the
influence of each rooted the music of this volatile period to its
specific place and time. Yet Wierzbicki also reveals the host of
underlying connections linking that most apprehensive of times to
our own uneasy present.
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