Title
DemocraticArtworks : Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan
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Description
Focusing on the political movements of the 1950s and 1960s, this book argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens. Focusing on a period in which the meaning of democracy came to the forefront of public debate, the fifties and sixties, the author argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens. Hersch addresses this issue by first looking at the ideas of Lionel Trilling and the New York Intellectuals in the 1950s, as expressed through literature and social commentary, and then by showing how jazz and rock musicians in the 1960s, through their individual songs and performances, expressed the ideas and ideals of the political movements of that decade. Democratic Artworks is the first to consider the New York Intellectuals, sixties jazz, or Bob Dylan from the perspective of political theory and to focus on their contributions to democracy.
ISBN
978-0-7914-3801-5
Publication Date
8-1998
Publisher
SUNY Press
City
Albany, NY
Keywords
literature, democracy, New York intellectuals, liberalism, novel, self, Lionel Trilling, political action, The Sixties, politics, aesthetics, everyday life, jazz, African American politics, 1950-1970, authenticity, surreality, Bob Dylan, New Left, Counterculture
Disciplines
Cultural History | Political Science | United States History
Recommended Citation
Hersch, Charles B., "DemocraticArtworks : Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan" (1998). Political Science Department Books. 1.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clpolsci_bks/1
