Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties by James Wierzbicki

Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties

James Wierzbicki

312 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction music informative slow-paced
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Derided for its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a price in anxiety. Prosperity existed under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked worry over threats at home and abroad. But even dread could ...

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