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Book

On Highway 61 : music, race, and the evolution of cultural freedom

Call Number

  • 781.64 M4789 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Berkeley : Counterpoint, [2014]

Physical Description

471 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

Explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. Searches for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan.

Contents

  • Race and the freedom principle in nineteenth-century America
  • African American music and the White response
  • The man who brought it all back home.

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