{"product_id":"easy-stretching-workbook-book-karen-smith-9780007695812","title":"The Easy Stretching Workbook","description":"Eric Drott's fascinating \u003ci\u003eMusic and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-81\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us how music of all types serve as sensitive barometers of social and political currents of change. His rich body of research presents an egalitarian approach to contemporary music studies, and complements other recent scholarship that similarly focus on music and political movements during the 1960s. Drott invites us into the heart of 1968--into the institutions, and onto the streets--and reveals what this cultural revolution means for cultural politics today. An impressive, important first book by an elegant and insightful writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Amy C. Beal, author of \u003ci\u003eNew Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFear not: Eric Drott's \u003ci\u003eMusic and the Elusive Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is not yet another rehearsal of the ubiquitous music-and-politics trope. It is vitally important for understanding the fragile alliances forged between music and French politics in the heady days of 1968, and the ways in which those alliances inflected subsequent musical practice and discourse. But it is more than that. Grounded in the assertion that musical genre mediates political expression, Drott's richly textured analysis of five such musical-political alliances is revelatory in both content and methodology. It is a must-read for those interested in the events of 1968 and their fallout, and a model for writing about the intersection of music and politics in any era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Joy H. Calico, author of \u003ci\u003eBrecht at the Opera\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEric Drott's vivid account of the impact and aftershocks of the May 1968 \u003ci\u003eévénements\u003c\/i\u003e upon music and musical life in France is an essential contribution to our understanding of recent musical history. Drott explores the central role of musical genre in mediating political expression, through a sequence of brilliant studies of the \u003ci\u003echanson\u003c\/i\u003e, free jazz, rock and avant-garde classical music. The discussion navigates deftly between evocative case study and crisply defined theoretical insight, and is illuminated throughout by a balanced appraisal of the era's idealism and ideological fault lines. \u003ci\u003eThe Elusive Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e will be mandatory reading not only for those seeking a fuller understanding of French musical life in the 'long 1970s', but for anyone with an interest in the relationship of music and social change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Robert Adlington, editor of \u003ci\u003eSound Commitments: Avant-garde Music and the Sixties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49611498258705,"sku":"GOR004326575","price":6.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50761254961425,"sku":"CIN0007695810G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52457461252369,"sku":"CIN0007695810VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0007695810.jpg?v=1750971669","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/easy-stretching-workbook-book-karen-smith-9780007695812","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}