"The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music is a comprehensive, smartly-conceived volume that can take its place as the new standard reference in popular music. The editors have shown great care in covering classic debates while moving the field into new, exciting areas of scholarship. …
The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music is a comprehensive, smartly-conceived volume that can take its place as the new standard reference in popular music. The editors have shown great care in covering classic debates while moving the field into new, exciting areas of scholarship. I…
"The Woodstock festival of 1969, which featured such groups and artists as the Who, Country Joe and the Fish, Ten Years After, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, is remembered as much for its 'bringing together' of the counter-cultural generation as for the music performed. The even…
Thirty or so years after the event and the Woodstock Aquarian Music and Art Fair remains the point at which the creative energies of the sixties briefly united in a three-day spectacle of peace, love and music. These writings consider how and why Woodstock achieved such an iconi…
Popular music and the aging audience - Individual and collective lifestyles of aging: popular music audiences - Toning down the mohawk: music, style and aging - Career opportunities: work, leisure, and the aging popular music fan - 'This is the Dad House': continuity and conflic…
The image of the aging rock-and-roller is not just Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on stage in their sixties. In this book, a cultural sociologist explains how people move on from youth and effectively grow older with popular music. For many aging followers of rock, punk, and oth…