Tag: Rocking

Rocking the Boat Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music


Free Download Silvia Bermúdez, "Rocking the Boat: Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music "
English | ISBN: 144264852X | 2018 | 200 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Silvia Bermúdez’s fascinating study reveals how Spanish popular music, produced between 1980 and 2013, was the first cultural site to engage in critical debate about ethnicity and race in relation to the immigration patterns that have been changing the social landscape of Spanish society since the late 1970s.

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Rocking in the Free World Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America


Free Download Nicholas Tochka, "Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America"
English | ISBN: 0197566510 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By the late 1980s, rock music had acquired a dizzying array of political labels. These claims about its political significance shared one common thread: that the music could set you free.

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