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Present Tense : Rock & Roll and Culture /

The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part. In Present Tense, Anthony DeCurtis brings...

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Autres auteurs: DeCurtis, Anthony (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1992.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part. In Present Tense, Anthony DeCurtis brings together writers from a wide variety of fields to explore how rock & roll is made, consumed, and experienced in our time. In this collection, Greil Marcus creates a collage of words and pictures that evokes and explores Elvis Presley's grisly fate as an American cultural image, while Rob.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (332 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822382225