Rockin' in the Ivory Tower

Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-9788-2939-8
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: CERES: Rutgers Studies in History

Histories of American rock music and the 1960s counterculture typically focus on the same few places: Woodstock, Monterey, Altamont. Yet there was also a very active college circuit that brought edgy acts like the Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground to different metropolitan regions and smaller towns all over the country. These campus concerts were often programmed, promoted, and reviewed by students themselves, and their diverse tastes challenged narrow definitions of rock music.   Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower takes a close look at two smaller universities, Drew in New Jersey and Stony Brook on Long Island, to see how the culture of rock music played an integral role in student life in the late 1960s. Analyzing campus archives and college newspapers, historian James Carter traces connections between rock fandom and the civil rights protests, free speech activism, radical ideas, lifestyle transformations, and anti-war movements that revolutionized universities in the 1960s. Furthermore, he finds that these progressive students refused to segregate genres like folk, R&B, hard rock, and pop. Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower gives readers a front-row seat to a dynamic time for the music industry, countercultural politics, and youth culture.

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Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface
- Introduction
- Rock music, counterculture and the sixties
- Two case studies: Stonybrook and Drew Universities
- Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower
- Postwar America, the Revolution in Higher Education & Popular Music
- Post-war Growth in Higher Education
- Growing Up Absurd
- The “Mud People,” and “the University in the Forest”
- Growing Up Rock & Roll
- Conclusion
- “The Sound of the Sixties” Popular Music & College Campuses
- “Collegians Shape the Nation’s Musical Tastes”
- From Rock n Roll to “Rock”
- The Late Sixties & the Counterculture on Campus
- Conclusion
- “I blundered my way through,” the college empresario, Fall 1965 — Fall 1967
- “More Money Than Las Vegas,” the industry view
- The campus view
- Stony Brook University
- Drew University 
- Conclusion
- “They’re Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower,” Fall 1967 — Fall 1968
- Politics, the Counterculture & Rock Music on Campus
- “Operation Stony Brook”
- Rock Music Culture on Main St, U.S.A.
- Conclusion
- The “Americanization of Rock,” Spring 1969 — Fall 1970 
- Blood, Sweat & Tears and Campus Culture
- The “Americanization of Rock”
- Conclusion: “The Campus Has Been Invaded”
- Conclusion: “Revolution is more than listening to rock music, getting stoned, and putting posters on the wall.” 
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index