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Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower: Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties Audiobook, by James M. Carter Play Audiobook Sample

Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower: Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties Audiobook

Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower: Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties Audiobook, by James M. Carter Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Patrick Lawlor Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798350846485

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

11

Longest Chapter Length:

56:28 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

18:00 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

39:39 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Histories of American rock music and the 1960s counterculture typically focus on the same few places: Woodstock, Monterey, Altamont. Yet there was also a very active college circuit that brought edgy acts like the Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground to different metropolitan regions and smaller towns all over the country. These campus concerts were often programmed, promoted, and reviewed by students themselves, and their diverse tastes challenged narrow definitions of rock music.

Rockin' in the Ivory Tower takes a close look at two smaller universities, Drew in New Jersey and Stony Brook on Long Island, to see how the culture of rock music played an integral role in student life in the late 1960s. Analyzing campus archives and college newspapers, historian James Carter traces connections between rock fandom and the civil rights protests, free speech activism, radical ideas, lifestyle transformations, and anti-war movements that revolutionized universities in the 1960s. Furthermore, he finds that these progressive students refused to segregate genres like folk, R&B, hard rock, and pop. Rockin' in the Ivory Tower gives listeners a front-row seat to a dynamic time for the music industry, countercultural politics, and youth culture.

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About Patrick Lawlor

Patrick Lawlor, an award-winning narrator, is also an accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer. He has worked extensively off Broadway and has been an actor and stuntman in both film and television. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many starred audio reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.