The Permanent Holdout

Cornel Bonca

doi:10.5771/9781538172889

Zusammenfassung

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. Cornel Bonca dives deeply into his music, his long fifty-year career, and activism—including environmentalism—within the context of American life, revealing a figure still fueled by certain American ideals like justice, freedom, and equality for all.

Browne grew up in Southern California in the early 1960s, greatly influenced by his mother’s progressive politics, the music of Bob Dylan and the speeches of Martin Luther King. Then, 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 only returned to the personal music his fans treasured in 1993 with I’m Alive.

Since then, Browne’s music has toggled back and forth between the personal and the political. He’s settled down into a long-term relationship with environmental activist Dianna Cohen and remained astonishingly active in local and national politics. This book dives into his music, life, and political activism in the changing face of America over the last fifty years, and why he still matters today.

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Copyrightjahr: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-7287-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-7288-9
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 194
Produkttyp: Monographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

KapitelSeiten

1. Dedication Kein Zugriff
2. CONTENTS Kein Zugriff
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Kein Zugriff
4. 1. THE MAN WHO DOESN’T TAKE IT EASY Kein Zugriff
  2. ABOUT THAT SINCERITY OF HIS Kein Zugriff
  3. DISCOVERING JACKSON BROWNE Kein Zugriff
  4. WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT Kein Zugriff
1. WHERE JACKSON BROWNE IS “FROM” Kein Zugriff
2. THE CRUCIBLE Kein Zugriff
3. SIXTEEN AND ON HIS OWN Kein Zugriff
4. BROWNE AND THE MAKING OF THE COUNTERCULTURE Kein Zugriff
5. BIDING HIS TIME Kein Zugriff
1. THE RETREAT Kein Zugriff
2. GOING “IN” Kein Zugriff
3. “THERE’S A WORLD, YOU KNOW” Kein Zugriff
4. WAITING FOR EVERYMAN Kein Zugriff
1. THE SECOND CRUCIBLE Kein Zugriff
2. THE DEPRESSION OF 1974 Kein Zugriff
3. THE SIDE ONE SUITE Kein Zugriff
4. THE OPEN SKY Kein Zugriff
1. TRAUMA AND REACTION Kein Zugriff
2. THE PRETENDER Kein Zugriff
3. “KEEP MOVING” Kein Zugriff
4. NO NUKES Kein Zugriff
1. BROWNE AND THE ANTINUKE MOVEMENT Kein Zugriff
2. HOLD OUT Kein Zugriff
3. LAWYERS IN LOVE Kein Zugriff
1. THE REAGAN YEARS Kein Zugriff
2. LIVES IN THE BALANCE Kein Zugriff
3. WORLD IN MOTION Kein Zugriff
1. I’M ALIVE Kein Zugriff
2. WATCHING THE WORLD WAKE UP FROM HISTORY Kein Zugriff
3. LOOKING EAST Kein Zugriff
1. THE NAKED RIDE HOME Kein Zugriff
2. BROWNE COMES ALIVE Kein Zugriff
3. TIME THE CONQUEROR Kein Zugriff
1. HOPE AND CHANGE THAT WASN’T Kein Zugriff
2. STANDING IN THE BREACH Kein Zugriff
3. THE GANDHI PEACE AWARD SPEECH Kein Zugriff
4. DOWNHILL FROM EVERYWHERE Kein Zugriff
5. GOOD THINGS Kein Zugriff
1. Introduction Kein Zugriff
2. Chapter 1 Kein Zugriff
3. Chapter 2 Kein Zugriff
4. Chapter 3 Kein Zugriff
5. Chapter 4 Kein Zugriff
6. Chapter 5 Kein Zugriff
7. Chapter 6 Kein Zugriff
8. Chapter 7 Kein Zugriff
9. Chapter 8 Kein Zugriff
10. Chapter 9 Kein Zugriff
1. BOOKS Kein Zugriff
2. ARTICLES Kein Zugriff
3. INTERVIEWS Kein Zugriff
4. DVDS Kein Zugriff
5. VIDEOS Kein Zugriff
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 185 - 192
About the Author Kein Zugriff Seiten 193 - 194