{"product_id":"apocalypse-jukebox-isbn-9781593762216","title":"Apocalypse Jukebox","description":"From its indefinite beginnings through its broad commercialization and endless reinterpretation, American rock-and-roll music has been preoccupied with an end-of-the-world mentality that extends through the whole of American popular music. In \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Jukebox,\u003c\/i\u003e Edward Whitelock and David Janssen trace these connections through American music genres, uncovering a mix of paranoia and hope that characterizes so much of the nation’s history.\u003cbr\u003eFrom the book’s opening scene, set in the American South during a terrifying 1833 meteor shower, the sense of doom is both palpable and inescapable; a deep foreboding that shadows every subsequent development in American popular music and, as Whitelock and Janssen contend, stands as a key to understanding and explicating America itself.\u003cbr\u003eWhitelock and Janssen examine the diversity of apocalyptic influences within North American recorded music, focusing in particular upon a number of influential performers, including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Devo, R.E.M., Sleater-Kinney, and Green Day. In \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Jukebox,\u003c\/i\u003e Whitelock and Janssen reveal apocalypse as a permanent and central part of the American character while establishing rock-and-roll as a true reflection of that character.\"From a terrifying 1833 meteor shower through the atomic bombings of 1945 and the attacks of September 11, 2001, U.S. cultural creators have often viewed the times through an apocalyptic lens. In this freewheeling and vigorously personal book, David Janssen and Edward J. Whitelock explore the pervasiveness of apocalyptic themes in American popular music, from gospel, folk, and country to jazz, rock \u0026amp; roll, and beyond. Performers as diverse as Presley, Coltrane, Dylan, Devo, and R.E.M. receive fresh new interpretations. \u003ci\u003eApocalyptic Jukebox\u003c\/i\u003e should have broad appeal. --Paul Boyer, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Time Shall Be No More\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eEd Whitelock\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at Gordon State College in Barnesville, GA, just 106 miles southwest of Philomath. He is co-author, with David Janssen, of \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Janssen\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of English at Gordon College and associate editor for Studies in Popular Culture.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302668194021,"sku":"NP9781593762216","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593762216.jpg?v=1767721683","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/apocalypse-jukebox-isbn-9781593762216","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}