Rock Music and Revolution from the Beatles to Nirvana

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A cultural history of rock and its iconic bands like the Beatles and Nirvana that explores how popular music embraced and fueled the revolutionary and radical ideas of the 1960s counterculture starting with its validation of the countercultural Beat movement. The course maps the explosion of deconstructive thinking about knowledge, power and social spaces onto the musical landscape, from the psychedelic ‘60s to the next decade’s hard rock, culminating in the hegemonic resistance inherent in the punk and grunge movements.