Rockin' in the Ivory Tower: Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties

Contributor(s): Carter, James M (Author)

ISBN: 9781978829381

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Binding Types:

Paperback

$35.95

Digicover (1-4 copies)

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Readerbound (5-99 copies)

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List/retail price:

$35.95

Pub Date: June 16, 2023

Dewey: 781.6609046

LCCN: 2022041175

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.40" H x 8.90" L x 5.90" W ( 0.66 lbs) 222 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Ceres: Rutgers Studies in History

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Historian James Carter takes a close look at how the rock music of the 1960s played an integral role in the lives of American college students. He traces connections between rock fandom and the civil rights protests, free speech activism, radical ideas, lifestyle transformations, and anti-war movements that revolutionized universities.

Review Quotes:

"Rockin' in the Ivory Tower offers a welcome entry into a field of study that is only just beginning to flower."

--Kenneth Womack "author of Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans"

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