Rock Me on the Water

Description:

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

subjects: nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2021-04-18,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  music,  Popular culture, united states,  Los angeles (calif.), history,  Los angeles (calif.), biography,  Social change,  Los angeles (calif.), social conditions,  Los angeles (calif.), social life and customs,  United states, politics and government, 1969-1974,  Popular culture,  History,  Biography,  Nineteen seventy-four, A.D.,  Politics and culture,  Social conditions,  Social life and customs,  Politics and government,  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

Places: Los Angeles,  California