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There's a Riot Going on: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of '60s Counter-culture

There's a Riot Going on: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of '60s Counter-culture

by PeterDoggett (Author)

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    Hardcover 2007

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Synopsis

Between 1967 and 1973, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Africa to Western Europe. Demonstrators took to the streets, fought gun battles with police, planted bombs in public buildings and attempted to overthrow the world's most powerful governments. Rock and soul music fuelled the revolutionary movement with anthems and iconic imagery. Soon the musicians themselves, from John Lennon and Bob Dylan to James Brown and Fela Kuti, were being dragged into the fray. Some joined the protestors on the barricades; some were persecuted for their political activism; some abandoned the cause and were dismissed as counter-revolutionaries. This collision of radical fervour and musical passion touched every facet of the revolution. Peace campaigners, feminists, black liberationists, anarchists and urban terrorists joined hands with many of the most important figures in black and white music to create a revolutionary tide that threatened to alter the face of global politics, before ebbing away under the pressure of government harassment and rampant egotism.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 608
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 04 Oct 2007
ISBN 10: 1841959405
ISBN 13: 9781841959405

Media Reviews
Peter Doggett's weighty tome is a treasure trove of countercultural anecdotes and reportage. * * New Statesman * *
Tells the story in an exemplary way. * * Financial Times * *
Doggett has mastered hundreds of interviews, contemporary accounts and documents to put together this meticulously researched, scholarly and often gripping portrait of an era. * * Sunday Telegraph * *
Doggett's encyclopaedic account of Sixties counter-culture is a fascinating history of pop's relationship with politics, examining the establishment's skill at assimilating rock 'n' roll rebellion into the mainstream. * * Independent * *
Doggett has a brisk, readable style, with an astute eye for the idiosyncrasies of the period. * * Telegraph * *
An extraordinary book...Doggett emerges triumphant. Grab a copy - By Any Means Necessary. (5 stars) -- Mark Paytress * * Mojo * *
...a fresh and near-definitive slant on a subject you might have thought had been picked clean by journalists and historians. -- Peter Watts * * Time Out * *
Peter Doggett's There's a Riot Going On is a lot of fun, but it also needs to be read by anyone who wants to understand the significance of the 60s or the role of pop culture. It is a very important book and I am sure I will go back to it numerous times. * * Mark Kurlansky, Author of 1968 and Salt * *
Author Bio
Peter Doggett is one of the UK's leading rock writers and journalists. He was editor of Record Collector magazine for fifteen years, and currently writes for Mojo and Q among others. His most recent book is Are You Ready for the Country? (Viking), an authoritative history of country rock. He has also written biographies of John Lennon and Lou Reed.