Rock me on the water : 1974 : the year Los Angeles transformed movies, music, television, and politics / Ronald Brownstein.
By: Brownstein, Ronald [author.].
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : HarperCollins, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First edition.Description: 439 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062899217; 006289921X.Other title: 1974 : the year Los Angeles transformed movies, music, television, and politics.Subject(s): 1900-1999 | Popular culture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century | Nineteen seventy-four, A.D | Nineteen seventies | Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century | HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture | POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory | Manners and customs | Nineteen seventies | Politics and culture | Social conditions | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974 | California -- Los Angeles | United StatesGenre/Form: History.Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein--"one of America's best political journalists" (The Economist)--tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles' creative peak, a glittering moment when popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become.
Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Los Angeles that year, in fact, dominated popular culture more than it ever had before, or would again. Working in film, recording, and television studios around Sunset Boulevard, living in Brentwood and Beverly Hills or amid the flickering lights of the Hollywood Hills, a cluster of transformative talents produced an explosion in popular culture which reflected the demographic, social, and cultural realities of a changing America. At a time when Richard Nixon won two presidential elections with a message of backlash against the social changes unleashed by the sixties, popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become. The early 1970s in Los Angeles was the time and the place where conservatives definitively lost the battle to control popular culture.
Rock Me on the Water traces the confluence of movies, music, television, and politics in Los Angeles month by month through that transformative, magical year. Ronald Brownstein reveals how 1974 represented a confrontation between a massive younger generation intent on change, and a political order rooted in the status quo. Today, we are again witnessing a generational cultural divide. Brownstein shows how the voices resistant to change may win the political battle for a time, but they cannot hold back the future.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-428) and index.
Prologue: Magic hour in Los Angeles -- January: Hollywood's fall and rise -- February: the republic of rock and roll -- March: the greatest night in television history -- April: already gone -- May: the ballad of Tom and Jane -- June: from Chinatown to Jerry Brown -- July: Hollywood's generational tipping point -- August: the Icarus of Los Angeles -- September: three roads to revolution -- October: the (white) boys' club -- November: breakthrough -- December: transitions.
Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Working in film, recording, and television studios, a cluster of transformative talents produced an explosion in popular culture which reflected the demographic, social, and cultural realities of a changing America. Popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become. Brownstein traces the confluence of movies, music, television, and politics in Los Angeles month by month through that transformative, magical year. Today, we are again witnessing a generational cultural divide, and Brownstein shows how the voices resistant to change may win the political battle for a time, but they cannot hold back the future.-- adapted from jacket
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Prologue: Magic Hour in Los Angeles (p. 1)
- 1 January Hollywood's Fall and Rise (p. 11)
- 2 February The Republic of Rock and Roll (p. 40)
- 3 March The Greatest Night in Television History (p. 76)
- 4 April Already Gone (p. 100)
- 5 May The Ballad of Tom and Jane (p. 131)
- 6 June From Chinatown to Jerry Brown (p. 165)
- 7 July Hollywood's Generational Tipping Point (p. 196)
- 8 August The Icarus of Los Angeles (p. 229)
- 9 September Three Roads to Revolution (p. 258)
- 10 October The (White) Boys' Club (p. 291)
- 11 November Breakthrough (p. 325)
- 12 December Transitions (p. 352)
- Acknowledgments (p. 391)
- Notes (p. 397)
- Index (p. 429)