From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968

Halligan, B

Abstract

Publisher's description of book:
’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 problematise 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.

• Online Publication Date: May 16, 2016
• Publication Date: May 28, 2014
• Deposit Date: Nov 21, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 18, 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 187-202
• Series Title: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
• Book Title: Countercultures and Popular Music
• ISBN: 9781472421067-(hardback);-9781138249943-(paperback);-9781315574479-(ebook)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574479
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574479
• Related Public URLs: https://www.routledge.com/Countercultures-and-Popular-Music/Whiteley-Sklower/p/book/9781472421067
• Additional Information: Additional Information : First published by Ashgate Publishing, 2014. Published by Routledge 2016.