TY - BOOK ID - 78640870 TI - Republic of rock PY - 2013 SN - 0199987351 019972623X 9780199726233 9780195384864 0195384865 9780199987351 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Rock music KW - Rock and roll music KW - Rock-n-roll music KW - Popular music KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78640870 AB - In his 1967 megahit ""San Francisco,"" Scott McKenzie sang of ""people in motion"" coming from all across the country to San Francisco, the white-hot center of rock music and anti-war protests. At the same time, another large group of young Americans was also in motion, less eagerly, heading for the jungles of Vietnam. Now, in The Republic of Rock, Michael Kramer draws on new archival sources and interviews to explore sixties music and politics through the lens of these two generation-changing places--San Francisco and Vietnam. From the Acid Tests of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters to hippi ER -