Dorian Lynskey is one of the most prominent music critics writing today. With 33 Revolutions Per Minute, he offers an engrossing, insightful, and wonderfully researched history of protest music in the twentieth century and beyond. From Billie Holiday and Woodie Guthrie to Bob Dylan and the Clash to Green Day and Rage Against the Machine, 33 Revolutions Per Minute is a moving and fascinating … and fascinating portrait of a century of popular music that tried to change the world.
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This book draws the connections between the social and political upheaval mainly promulgated by the youth culture (not counter-culture) during the years in which civil rights was in the first stages of showing its strength. At the same time, white boys were being being thrown into an immoral war based on an unreasonable fear of Communism, and …
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