Author by: James Wierzbicki Language: en Publisher by: University of Illinois Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 87 Total Download: 602 File Size: 43,8 Mb Description: 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 not quell the revolutionary changes taking place in virtually every form of mainstream music. Music historian James Wierzbicki sheds light on how the Fifties' pervasive moods affected its sounds. Plymouth Massachusetts Starr Program. Moving across genres established--pop, country, opera--and transfigured--experimental, rock, jazz--Wierzbicki delves into the social dynamics that caused forms to emerge or recede, thrive or fade away. Red scares and white flight, sexual politics and racial tensions, technological progress and demographic upheaval--the influence of each rooted the music of this volatile period to its specific place and time.

Yet Wierzbicki also reveals the host of underlying connections linking that most apprehensive of times to our own uneasy present. Author by: Anthony Scioli Language: en Publisher by: Oxford University Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 69 Total Download: 494 File Size: 48,7 Mb Description: Economic collapse, poverty, disease, natural disasters, the constant threat of community unrest and international terrorism--a quick look at any newspaper is enough to cause almost anyone to feel trapped and desperate. Eu3c Filmscan 35 I Software Update. Yet the recent election also revealed a growing search for hope spreading through society. In the timely Hope in the Age of Anxiety, Anthony Scioli and Henry Biller illuminate the nature of hope and offer a multitude of techniques designed to improve the lives of individuals, and bring more light into the world. In this fascinating and humane book, Scioli and Biller reveal the ways in which human beings acquire and make use of hope. Hope in the Age of Anxiety is meant to be a definitive guide.