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Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans - The Music Never Ends (Hardcover, New)
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Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans - The Music Never Ends (Hardcover, New)
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Rock 'n' roll infuses the everyday life of the American adult, but
for the first, complete generation of rock 'n' roll fans-baby
boomers born between 1946 and 1964-it holds a special kind of
value, playing a social personality-defining role that is unique to
this group. Based on 18 years of sociological research and 52 years
of rock 'n' roll fandom, Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans: The Music
Never Ends draws on data collected from participant observations
and interviews with artists, fans, and producers to explore our
aging rock culture through the filter of symbolic interactionist
theory. As author Joseph Kotarba notes, the "purpose in writing
this book is to describe sociologically the many ways people in our
society who were raised on rock'n'roll music and its cultural
baggage have continued to use the rock'n'roll idiom to make sense
of, celebrate, and master everyday life-through adulthood and for
the rest of their lives." Sociological concepts of the "self" are
the key organizing feature of this book, as each chapter engages
with sociological ideas to explain how baby boomers use popular
music to explore, sculpt, fulfill, and ultimately make sense of who
they are in different contexts. Kotarba looks at baby boomers as
individuals and parents, as political actors and religious
adherents, social beings and aging members of American society,
detailing throughout how rock 'n' roll provides a groundwork for
establishing and maintaining both private and public sense of self.
Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans will interest scholars and students
of music and sociology and American popular culture.
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