Rock Me on the Water
Subtitle: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780062899217
Copyright date: 2021
Description: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.

Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Working in film, recording, and television studios, a cluster of transformative talents produced an explosion in popular culture which reflected the demographic, social, and cultural realities of a changing America. Popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become. Brownstein traces the confluence of movies, music, television, and politics in Los Angeles month by month through that transformative, magical year. Today, we are again witnessing a generational cultural divide, and Brownstein shows how the voices resistant to change may win the political battle for a time, but they cannot hold back the future.-- adapted from jacket