Download Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties (Music in American Life) AudioBook Free
Derided because of its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a cost in anxiety. Prosperity been around under the shadow of an mushroom cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked fret over risks at home and in foreign countries. But even dread could not quell the revolutionary changes taking place in nearly every form of mainstream music. Music historian James Wierzbicki sheds light about how the Fifties' pervasive moods influenced its may seem. Moving across styles established--pop, country, opera--and transfigured--experimental, rock, jazz--Wierzbicki delves into the public dynamics that caused varieties to emerge or recede, prosper or fade. Red scares and white trip, intimate politics and racial tensions, technical improvement and demographic upheaval--the impact of each rooted the music of this volatile period to its specific place and time. Yet Wierzbicki also shows the number of underlying relationships linking that most apprehensive of that time period to our own uneasy present. The booklet is published by School of Illinois Press."The author successfully shows the impact of public change after Fifties music in a well-written and participating way. Suggested." (Library Journal)"This amazing book is accessible for students and basic readers, even as Wierzbicki offers new insights that'll be of interest to specialists as well." (Gayle Sherwood Magee, author of Charles Ives Reconsidered)"Wierzbicki is usually to be especially commended for his mastery of many sources and just how he has woven them alongside one another." (Michael Broyles, author of Mavericks and also other Customs in American Music)
