24 February 2020
Bloomsbury Digital Resources have updated their digital resource, Bloomsbury Popular Music, with a new featured content theme which focuses on ‘Musical Countercultures’.
Five new titles have also been added to the platform this month, bringing the total available on the platform (including the entire 33 1/3 series) to 210, along with 12 volumes of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World.
The featured theme offers free access to a curated selection of chapters across the platform, which explore global musical countercultures and the people who lived them, from the perspectives of a variety of international authors. Topics explored include:
- 1960s counterculture
- Woodstock Festival
- Canción de protesta and nueva canción latinoamericana
- Punk
- ‘Protestivals’ in the 21st century
- Country in focus: Vietnam
- Artist in focus: The Velvet Underground