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This book dives deeply into the music, career, and activism of Jackson Browne within the context of American life and the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
Known for albums like Late for the Sky, The Pretender, and Running on Empty, Jackson Browne was a master of capturing the counterculture ethos of the 1960s. Traversing his career over half a century, Cornel Bonca dives deeply into Browne's music and activism-including environmentalism-within the context of American life, revealing a figure still fueled by American ideals like justice, freedom, and equality for all.
Growing up in Southern California in the early 1960s, Browne was greatly influenced by his mother's progressive politics, the music of Bob Dylan and the speeches of Martin Luther King. Later drawn to the Laurel Canyon rock scene, he moved to Los Angeles and established himself as a songwriter for The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, and many others, becoming a fixture of the singer-songwriter movement in the early 1970s. His music in the 1980s was largely political in scope, critiquing America's conservative turn, its militarism in Central America, its nuclear brinksmanship with the Soviet Union, and its dismantling of Great Society social programs. He later returned to the personal music his fans treasured in 1993 with I'm Alive.
Browne's music has since toggled back and forth between the personal and the political, while he himself has remained astonishingly active in local and national politics. This book offers a deep exploration of his music, life, and political activism in the changing face of America over the last fifty years, and why he still matters today.
Table of Contents
Introduction: What Jackson Browne's Holding Out For
1. “The Barricades of Heaven”
2. “Where Do You Have Left But To Go In?”
3. Late for the Sky
4. The Deluge
5. Trouble in the 1980s
6. All In on the Political
7. Turmoil, Then Renaissance
8. Millennial Highs, Millennial Lows
9. Shoulder to the Wheel, Heart in the Deal
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | 12 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9798216465102 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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