The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture Now, in The Republic of Rock, Michael Kramer draws on new archival sources and interviews to explore sixties music and politics through the lens of these two generation-changing places--San Francisco and Vietnam. At the same time, another large group of young Americans was also i

Title	:	The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture
Author	:	Michael J. Kramer
Rating	:	4.61 (800 Votes)
Asin	:	0190610751
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	306 Pages
Publish Date	:	2017-01-12
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In his 1967 megahit "San Francisco," Scott McKenzie sang of "people in motion" coming from all across the country to San Francisco, the white-hot center of rock music and anti-war protests. At the same time, another large group of young Americans was also in motion, less eagerly, heading for the jungles of Vietnam.

Now, in The Republic of Rock, Michael Kramer draws on new archival sources and interviews to explore sixties music and politics through the lens of these two generation-changing places--San Francisco and Vietnam. From the Acid Tests of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters to hippie disc jockeys on strike, the military's use of rock music to "boost morale" in Vietnam, and the forgotten tale of a South Vietnamese rock band, The Republic of Rock shows how the musical connections between the City of the Summer of Love and war-torn Southeast Asia were crucial to the making of the sixties counterculture. The book also illustrates how and why the legacy of

Editorial :
"A provocative, always smart, and well-grounded account of the role rock music played in the lived experience of the sixties-era counterculture. Kramer has accomplished what few other historians of the counterculture have done: he has found stories of men and women actively involved in the cultural rebellion of the sixties era who struggled to turn their dreams into actions. Kramer enters this producerist counterculture through the agency of rock music." --David Farber, author of The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s

"The Republic of Rock offers valuable insights into the culture of rock music in San Francisco and Saigon during the 1960s. Kramer's book provides an informed and informative retrospective on a decade when sonic expectations for humanity soared, only to be brought back to earth by other musical depictions of ghetto lives, police harassment, mindless capitalism, drug abuse, and military madness." --B. Lee Cooper, Rock Music Studie

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