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The Sound of a Generation and the Pursuit
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- ISBN8235267503
- EAN9798235267503
- Date de parution31/05/2026
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- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
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The Sound of a Generation and the Pursuit is an autopsy of a generation that tried to live inside the connective tissue of America's founding promise - and discovered both its power and its limits. No generation since the Founders has reshaped the American imagination more than the Baby Boomers. They were the first to step beyond merely defending the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and instead attempted to practice them - to stretch their meaning, test their elasticity, and inhabit the pursuit itself.
Their effort was noble. Their contradictions were inevitable. Music became the tuning fork of that experiment. From folk anthems to electric revolutions, the Boomers' soundtrack captured their aspirations, their fractures, and ultimately their reckoning. Like A440 - the pitch to which every instrument tunes - their music did not erase individuality; it enabled harmony. And when the harmony broke, the music recorded that too.
Tracing the arc from awakening to backlash to the long shadow that still shapes American life, this book examines how a generation reached farther than it could hold, and how its pursuit - bold, messy, and unfinished - continues to echo through the nation's cultural and civic life. Part history, part cultural analysis, and part generational mirror, The Sound of a Generation and the Pursuit asks a simple but urgent question:What happens when a generation tries to live the promise instead of merely inheriting it?
Their effort was noble. Their contradictions were inevitable. Music became the tuning fork of that experiment. From folk anthems to electric revolutions, the Boomers' soundtrack captured their aspirations, their fractures, and ultimately their reckoning. Like A440 - the pitch to which every instrument tunes - their music did not erase individuality; it enabled harmony. And when the harmony broke, the music recorded that too.
Tracing the arc from awakening to backlash to the long shadow that still shapes American life, this book examines how a generation reached farther than it could hold, and how its pursuit - bold, messy, and unfinished - continues to echo through the nation's cultural and civic life. Part history, part cultural analysis, and part generational mirror, The Sound of a Generation and the Pursuit asks a simple but urgent question:What happens when a generation tries to live the promise instead of merely inheriting it?
