Abstract
Abstract This short epilogue examines the political-economic shifts that allowed Americans to believe that rock music could make you free. It traces the curious motion of two major trends: the postwar emergence of economic conditions that enabled certain kinds of music consumed by particular young people to assume immense cultural and symbolic power by the Sixties, followed by the erosion of these conditions from the Seventies; and the continued strengthening of narratives linking popular music to ideals of democracy, freedom, and personal liberation over the same period. It concludes that by holding these two contradictory trends in tension, we might be inspired to craft new narratives about not only the potentials of popular music as an agent of change—but also the limits.
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