La Biblia del rock

Recoge una serie de trabajos, en perspectiva diacrónica, sobre las consecuencias de los paradigmas creativos y receptivos del teatro áureo. La antología finaliza con una reflexión sobre las humanidades en la nueva era digital.

In this book, twenty-four scholars investigate the relationship between music and dictatorship in twentieth-century Europe and Latin America. The music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteen nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and Hungary. Historical and aesthetical articles face both individual people (for instance, Chavez, Ligeti, Massarani or Villa-Lobos) as well whole generations of composers operating under dictatorship (for example, in the communist regimes of...

Sin nombres como The Stooges, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Fugazi, Sick of It All, Black Flag, Heartbreakers, The Dictators, Misfits y tantos y tantos otros el punk no podría entenderse. Lo que nació como un movimiento contracultural se convirtió muy pronto en una seña de identidad entre los más jóvenes de una generación que veían en su lema -No Future- y en el reflejo de su música la bandera en la que refugiarse ante los complejos momentos que vivían.

Their rhythms have influenced how we walk on the street, how we look in a mirror, and how we confront the world around us. Pop music has influenced our morals and customs; it has transformed our attitude towards race, gender, religion, and politics. In a revolutionary and ambition book, Peter Doggett shares the history of pop music from Bob Dylan and the Beatles to the stars of the 21st century and how technological advances (Spotify and other streaming services) have made pop music the vital blood of the modern world.