Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression (1955-1972)

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Aaron J. Leonard returns to the show to discuss his newest book, "Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression". Throughout the interview, we play many of the artists and songs mentioned in the book and conversation (time stamps below).

Together, Aaron and Breht discuss the history, social upheavals, cultural shifts, and the political context in which the music from this era emerged and the reaction it created from the mainstream culture. Topics include: the beatniks, the cultural context of the 50's in America, the civil rights movement, the 1960's, the Kent State Massacre, the introduction of psychedlic drugs, the Vietnam War, the Cuban Revolution, the shift from the old left to the new left, and much more!

Music included:

10:30 - People Are Strange by The Doors

28:05 - Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

48:40 - Mississippi Goddamn by Nina Simone

59:00 - Santo Domingo by Phil Ochs

74:50 - White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane

87:00 - Luang Prabang by Dave Von Ronk

Outro music: "For What it's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.
0:08.8	On today's episode we have back on the show Aaron Leonard to talk about his newest book
0:13.8	Whole World in an Updoor Music Rebellion and Repression from 1955 to 1972.
0:20.9	So as always Aaron is a wonderful sort of you know articulator of American history and
0:27.2	while he's ostensibly writing a book about music in this period of time he's always connecting
0:32.3	it with deeper political, social and economic issues and showing how they are you know in
0:38.0	another dialectical relationship with the cultural products that our society produces
0:43.4	and this is a wonderful addition to his growing library of books that he's written.
0:48.2	We've had him on to talk about heavy radicals.
0:50.1	We've had him on to talk about the folk singers in the bureau, on to talk about Judas
0:55.6	in the Black Messiah, the documentary a year or two ago about Fred Hampton, Cohen Tellpro.
1:02.0	We've had him on many times and he's always a pleasure I always always learn something
1:05.9	new from him and yeah he's definitely one of my favorite guests and this episode is
1:10.9	going to be wonderful because not only are we going to be talking about the book we
1:15.0	are also going to be playing music from the artists and the bands that he mentions throughout
1:20.2	the episode and for those that might not know or for those that enjoy RevLeft and like
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