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Did rock smash the wall? The role of rock in political transition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Jolanta Pekacz
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A conviction that rock is the central manifestation of the post-War mass culture and the most common form of mass cultural activity, seems undoubted for rock analysts. The question as to whether rock music is able to play any significant role in a process of political change evokes, however, scepticism rather than endorsement (Rosselson 1979; Hibbard and Kaleialoha 1983; Orman 1984; Pattison 1987; Grossberg 1991).

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Popular Music , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 41 - 49
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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