TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wierzbicki,James Eugene
TI  - Music in the age of anxiety: American music in the fifties 
T2  - Music in American life
SN  - 9780252098277
AV  - ML3477 .W58 2016eb
U1  - 781.64097309/045 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Urbana, Chicago
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Music
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Popular music
KW  - 1951-1960
KW  - Musique populaire
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Instruction & Study
KW  - Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - fast
KW  - Musik
KW  - gnd
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The pop music mainstream -- Rock 'n' roll -- Jazz -- Hollywood -- Broadway -- Opera -- The classical music mainstream -- Modernists -- Mavericks
N2  - "Derided for its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a price in anxiety. Prosperity existed under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked worry over threats at home and abroad. But even dread could not quell the revolutionary changes taking place in virtually every form of mainstream music. Music historian James Wierzbicki sheds light on how the Fifties' pervasive moods affected its sounds. Moving across genres established--pop, country, opera--and transfigured--experimental, rock, jazz--Wierzbicki delves into the social dynamics that caused forms to emerge or recede, thrive or fade away. Red scares and white flight, sexual politics and racial tensions, technological progress and demographic upheaval--the influence of each rooted the music of this volatile period to its specific place and time. Yet Wierzbicki also reveals the host of underlying connections linking that most apprehensive of times to our own uneasy present."--Publisher's description
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