rock music

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/26/2021
  

  Rewinding Jimi Hendrix’s National Anthem

  "Jimi’s Woodstock anthem was both an expression of protest at the obscene violence of a wholly unnecessary war and an affirmation of aspects of the American experiment entirely worth fighting for."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/23/19
  

  Why Bruce Springsteen is the soundtrack of the 2020 primary

  by Jonathan D. Cohen

  By embracing the Boss, Democrats try to reach white working-class voters. But they need to embrace his ideas, too. 

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• 2-17-14
  

  Review of Michael J. Kramer's "The Republic of Rock"

  by Ron Briley

  How hippie music became a bastion of "hip capitalism."

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  10-27-13
  

  Lou Reed, iconic punk poet, dead at 71

  The Velvet Underground frontman died Sunday at 71.

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  5-19-13
  

  Ron Briley: Review of David Simonelli's "Working Class Heroes: Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s" (Lexington Books, 2013)

  Ron Briley reviews books for the History News Network and is a history teacher and an assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of "The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad."For anyone coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s, Working Class Heroes will evoke the rock soundtrack of youthful rebellion. But unlike the many memoirs by musicians which tend to dominate rock music literature, awash with accounts of sex and drugs, David Simonelli, associate professor of history at Youngstown State University, employs the British rock scene from the Beatles to the Sex Pistols to make important observations on the politics, economics, and social class attitudes of Britain during the 1960s and 1970s.