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    There's a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the 60s
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    There's a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the 60s

    By Peter Doggett

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    “Doggett’s encyclopaedic account of Sixties counter-culture is a fascinating history of pop’s relationship with politics.” —The Independent
     
    Between 1965 and 1972, 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 Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark to Paris, Berlin, Ghana, and Peking.
     
    Rock and soul music fueled 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. From Mick Jagger’s legendary appearance in Grosvenor Square standing on the sidelines and snapping pictures, to the infamous incident during the Woodstock Festival when Pete Townshend kicked yippie Abbie Hoffman off the stage while he tried to make a speech about an imprisoned comrade, Peter Doggett unravels the truth about how these were not the “Street Fighting Men” they liked to see themselves as and how the increasing corporatization of the music industry played an integral role in derailing the cultural dream. There’s a Riot Going On is a fresh, definitive, and exceedingly well-researched behind-the-scenes account of this uniquely turbulent period when pop culture and politics shared the world stage with mixed results.
     
    “A fresh and near-definitive slant on a subject you might have thought had been picked clean by journalists and historians.” —Time Out London
     
    “An extraordinary book . . . Doggett emerges triumphant. Grab a copy—by any means necessary.” —Mojo
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 5, 2009
    ISBN9780802197740
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    There's a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the 60s
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    Peter Doggett

    Peter Doggett has been writing about rock music and interviewing rock stars for more than thirty years. He is the author of several books, including CSNY, You Never Give Me Your Money, and Electric Shock. He lives in London. Find out more at PeterDoggett.org.

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    • 4/5
      This book follows the counter-culture's various political movements from 1965 to 1972. Most of the information focuses on the happenings in the U.S., though Peter Doggett does touch upon other countries and how the turmoil connected. Doggett covers the Weathermen, the Black Power groups, Yippies, the start of the Women's Movement, the political activists such as Abbie Hoffman, and the musicians who got involved. Doggett gives us insight into why the underground movements took off the way they did, as well as why many fizzled into nothing in the end. While the book is divided by year, at times Doggett jumps around in his attempt to cover a person or movement's activities. For the most part, I didn't have a problem with the format. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the period of history that sparked an incredible amount of change in our lives.
    • 4/5
      This is a compelling and detailed history of politics and music of the sixties and there relationship. What I found limited was its over all emphasis on failure, as if "the revolution" should have been achieved - and sustained. I want to hear about how ongoing all those innovations have also been: the way it has changed many aspects of global culture indelibly> How positive many of those changes have been. To use an analogy: just because we brought the flowers and the songs to the wedding didn't mean we guaranteed there would be no divorce! Let's start over!