Apocalypse Jukebox
The End of the World in American Popular Music
Published on 13. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-59376-221-6 (ISBN)
Description
Dr. Edward Whitelock spent most of the year 1978 stealing and hoarding his grandmother's meds in preparation for suicide. Why? Just the usual story: he was a poor, clumsy, socially awkward kid whose daily life was comprised of the seemingly unending torture of the middle-school outcast. Then, Devo appeared on Saturday Night Live. Everything changed; the future was revealed: The geeks would inherit the earth. APOCALYPSE JUKEBOX is an examination of American popular music - from hellfire hymnals though anarchic rock and roll - and reveals the nation's collective fixation on disaster, revelation, and impossible salvation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Publishing group
Counterpoint
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59376-221-6 (9781593762216)
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12/2008
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Persons
Ed Whitelock 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 Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music.
David Janssen is an Associate Professor of English at Gordon College and associate editor for Studies in Popular Culture.
David Janssen is an Associate Professor of English at Gordon College and associate editor for Studies in Popular Culture.