Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: James M. Carter
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.458kg
ISBN: 9781978829398
ISBN 10: 1978829396
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 16 June 2023
Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years
Audience:
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Rockin' In the Ivory Tower offers a welcome entry into a field of study that is only just beginning to flower. --Kenneth Womack author of The Beatles and the 1960's: Reception, Revolution, and Social Change The research and writing are exciting; Rockin' In the Ivory Tower fills an important gap in the historiography of Rock music and the Sixties. --Dewar MacLeod author of Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springste
Rockin' in the Ivory Tower offers a welcome entry into a field of study that is only just beginning to flower. --Kenneth Womack author of Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans The research and writing are exciting; Rockin' in the Ivory Tower fills an important gap in the historiography of rock music and the sixties. --Dewar MacLeod author of Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springste
Author Information
JAMES M. CARTER is an associate professor of history at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, where his specializations include U.S. foreign policy and the rise of the counterculture. His book Inventing Vietnam is an analysis of the failed nation-building effort undertaken by the United States in Vietnam and how that failure led to the war.
