Rock, Race, and Revolution in the 1960s.
Patrick Burke, Associate Professor, ethnomusicology, works on jazz and popular music in the United States, with a focus on the connections between music's performance and reception and the formation of racial ideology. He is author of Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street (University of Chicago Press, 2008). His current book project, What's My Name? Rock, Race, and Revolution in the 1960s, in progress, addresses the relationship between rock music and the radical political movements of the late 1960s.
He recently returned from the University of Illinois where he gave an invited lecture in the “Global Utopias” series; “Music, Utopia, and the Global 1960s” projects of the CHI and the Department of History, University of Illinois.
Series: "Global Utopias," The Center for Historical Interpretation, Department of History, University of Illinois
Title: "Rock, Race, and Revolution in the 1960s"
Description: For many white radicals during the 1960s, African American music represented a means of utopian transcendence, and white radicals' attempts to translate black music into new forms had a significant impact on both popular music and New Left politics.
