[ecrea] Sheila Whiteley & Jedediah Sklower (eds), Countercultures and Popular Music

Out now:  Countercultures and Popular Music

an international, edited version of both “counterculture” issues 
published by Volume ! (http://www.cairn.info/revue-volume-2012-1.htm and 
http://www.cairn.info/revue-volume-2012-2.htm)

http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472421081

• Edited by Professor Emeritus Sheila Whiteley, University of Salford, 
UK and Jedediah Sklower, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France
• Series : Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
316 pages

• ‘Counterculture’ emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been 
re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of 
cultural and socio-political phenomena. This volume provides an 
essential new academic scrutiny of the concept of ‘counterculture’ and a 
critical examination of the period and its heritage. Recent developments 
in sociological theory complicate and problematize theories developed in 
the 1960s, with digital technology, for example, providing an impetus 
for new understandings of counterculture. Music played a significant 
part in the way that the counterculture authored space in relation to 
articulations of community by providing a shared sense of collective 
identity. Not least, the heady mixture of genres provided a 
socio-cultural-political backdrop for distinctive musical practices and 
innovations which, in relation to counterculture ideology, provided a 
rich experiential setting in which different groups defined their 
relationship both to the local and international dimensions of the 
movement, so providing a sense of locality, community and collective 
identity.

• Contents:
Preface: dissent within dissent, Jedediah Sklower;
Introduction: Countercultures and popular music, Sheila Whiteley;

Reappraising ‘counterculture’, Andy Bennett.

Part I Theorising Countercultures:
Break on through: the counterculture and the climax of American 
modernism, Ryan Moore;
The banality of degradation: Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground and the 
trash aesthetic, Simon Warner;
Were British subcultures the beginnings of multitude?, Charles Mueller.

Part II Utopias, Dystopias and the Apocalyptic:
The rock counterculture from modernist Utopianism to the development of 
an alternative music scene, Christophe Den Tandt;
‘Helter skelter’ and Sixties revisionism, Gerald Carlin and Mark Jones;
Apocalyptic music: reflections on countercultural Christian influence, 
Shawn David Young;
Nobody’s army: contradictory cultural rhetoric in Woodstock and Gimme 
Shelter, Gina Arnold.

Part III Sonic Anarchy and Freaks:
The long freak out: unfinished music and countercultural madness in 
avant-garde rock of the 1960s and 1970s, Jay Keister;
The Grateful Dead and Friedrich Nietzsche: transformation in music and 
consciousness, Stanley J. Spector;
Scream from the heart: Yoko Ono’s rock and roll revolution, Shelina Brown;
From countercultures to suburban cultures: Frank Zappa after 1968, 
Benjamin Halligan.

Part IV Countercultural Scenes - Music and Place:
Countercultural space does not persist: Christiania and the role of 
music, Thorbjörg Daphne Hall;
A border-crossing soundscape of pop: the auditory traces of subcultural 
practices in 1960s Berlin, Heiner Stahl;
Music and countercultures in Italy: the Neapolitan scene, Giovanni Vacca.

Bibliography; Discography; Filmography; Index.



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