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This book examines the post-1960s era of popular music in the
Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and
methods. By using a series of case studies, this book mobilizes
historical theory and methods to underline different expressions of
alternative music functioning within a mainstream musical industry.
Each chapter highlights a particular theory or method while
simultaneously weaving it through a genre of music expressing a
notion of alternativity-an explicit positioning of one's expression
outside and counter to the mainstream. Historical Theory and
Methods through Popular Music seeks to fill a gap in current
scholarship by offering a collection written specifically for the
pedagogical and theoretical needs of those interested in the topic.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational
political philosophy and system of economic, political, and
cultural relations. Resting on the fundamental premise that the
free market should be unfettered by government intrusion,
neoliberal policies have primarily redirected the state's
prerogatives away from the postwar Keynesian welfare system and
toward the insulation of finance and corporate America from
democratic pressure. As neoliberal ideas gained political currency
in the 1960s and 1970s, a reactionary cultural turn catalyzed their
ascension. The cinema, music, magazine culture, and current events
discourse of the 1970s provided the space of negotiation permitting
these ideas to take hold and be challenged. Daniel Robert McClure's
book follows the interaction between culture and economics during
the transition from Keynesianism in the mid-1960s to the triumph of
neoliberalism at the dawn of the 1980s. From the 1965 debate
between William F. Buckley and James Baldwin, through the pages of
BusinessWeek and Playboy, to the rise of exploitation cinema in the
1970s, McClure tracks the increasingly shared perception by white
males that they had "lost" their long-standing rights and that a
great neoliberal reckoning might restore America's repressive
racial, sexual, gendered, and classed foundations in the wake of
the 1960s.
Political Moderation in America's First Two Centuries corrects the
popular misconception that moderates are timid and cautious. Robert
M. Calhoon examines the structure of political moderation; he
characterizes moderation as a compound of principle and prudence;
he defines it as humility in the face of the past; and he
classifies it as historically grounded political ethics. From its
origins in the Peloponnesian War and its early modern recovery
during the French Wars of Religion, this book recounts the
popularization of political moderation in American history from
John Locke in the 1680s to the Mugwumps in the 1880s. The first
comprehensive history of this subject, this book draws on more than
a hundred books published over the past half-century and extensive
research on religion and politics in America to demonstrate that
moderates were creatures of circumstance - made, not born.
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