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They Rocked the City: Rockmusik und gesellschaftlicher Umbruch - Hardcover

Eichener, Volker

 
9783963180798: They Rocked the City: Rockmusik und gesellschaftlicher Umbruch

Synopsis

Rock music became the soundtrack of the turmoil of the 68s generation. Volker Eichener has provided the right booklet with "They Rocked the City". We can change the world Re-arrange the world Graham Nash, "Chicago" About the book: "The times they are a-changin'", Bob Dylan announced already in 1963 and thus summoned the departure of a generation that would literally make the conditions dance. Emancipation, democratization, liberalization, diversity, tolerance, ecology - numerous topics that still determine the political agenda today occupied the mainstream. In 1968, the protests of the rebellious youth reached their peak, rock music became the driving force of movement. Volker Eichener shows how the Rolling Stones, the Beatles & Co. the revolt aesthetically as well as content set the tact, and how the stars were equally influenced by cultural upheaval. From blues to krautrock, he traces the elementary developments of a revolutionary new music that should soon roar out of all the boxes and blow away the lead heaviness of the skewer-bourgeois post-war society. About the Author: Volker Eichener, born in 1959, is a habilitated sociologist and professor of political science at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf. It was awarded the municipal scientific premium of the municipal top associations and the prize "Social Sciences in Practical Relationship" of the Schader Foundation. Through his volunteer commitment to the Kulturbrauerei Hülsmann in Herne-Eickel he has learned the role of a concert organiser and gained intimate insights into the rock music scene. 720 pages Hardback cover. Two thousands.

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