Cornel Bonca

The Permanent Holdout (eBook, ePUB)

Jackson Browne, His Music, His America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Known for albums like Late for the Sky, The Pretender, and Running on Empty, Jackson Browne was a master of capturing the counterculture ethos of the 1960s. Cornel Bonca dives deeply into his music, his long fifty-year career, and activism-including environmentalism-within the context of American life, revealing a figure still fueled by certain American ideals like justice, freedom, and equality for all. Browne grew up in Southern California in the early 1960s, greatly influenced by his mother's progressive politics, the music of Bob Dylan and the speeches of Martin Luther King. Then, drawn to the Laurel Canyon rock scene, he moved to Los Angeles and established himself as a songwriter for The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, and many others, becoming a fixture of the singer-songwriter movement in the early 1970s. His music in the 1980s was largely political in scope, critiquing America's conservative turn, its militarism in Central America, its nuclear brinksmanship with the Soviet Union, and its dismantling of Great Society social programs. He only returned to the personal music his fans treasured in 1993 with I'm Alive. Since then, Browne's music has toggled back and forth between the personal and the political. He's settled down into a long-term relationship with environmental activist Dianna Cohen and remained astonishingly active in local and national politics. This book dives into his music, life, and political activism in the changing face of America over the last fifty years, and why he still matters today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538172889
• Artikelnr.: 74830571

Autorenporträt

Cornel Bonca is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches courses in American literature, critical theory, and rock 'n' roll history. His essays, reviews, and fiction have appeared in two dozen publications, among them Salon, The New York Observer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacaranda, and Modern Language Studies, where he's written on the beat poets, Bruce Springsteen, The National, The Airborne Toxic Event, David Foster Wallace, Philip Roth, and Don DeLillo. His last book was Paul Simon: An American Tune. He lives in Altadena, CA with his wife and daughter.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: What Jackson Browne's Holding Out For
Chapter 1: "The Barricades of Heaven"
Chapter 2: "Where Do You Have Left But To Go In?"
Chapter 3: Late for the Sky
Chapter 4: The Deluge
Chapter 5: Trouble in the 1980s
Chapter 6: All In on the Political
Chapter 7: Turmoil, Then Renaissance
Chapter 8: Millennial Highs, Millennial Lows
Chapter 9: Shoulder to the Wheel, Heart in the Deal
About the Author
Bibliography