Robert G Pielke's Books
Dec.22.2011
From its roots in the black and white "under classes" through its clash with the broader culture to its multifaceted incarnation today, rock and roll has fostered and reflected a genuine cultural revolution that has gone on to influence the world.
This critical work investigates rock music from a philosophical perspective, an approach rarely seen in the literature. Topics...
Nov.18.2010
What does it all mean, this thing called ?rock and roll?? This is different from asking what happened, and who did what. A lot books have dealt with these questions. The meaning of rock music in American Culture is another matter entirely. From its roots in the black and white ?under-classes,? through its clash with the established culture and the inevitable backlash, to its multi-...
May.16.2010
It has taken centuries to recognize that all humans possess certain unalienable rights. There will come a time when we have to consider whether others deserve those rights as well. -- That time will come on July 4th 1863, at Gettysburg.
When a stranger carrying a shiny,metallic valise steps aboard a train carrying Abraham Lincoln home from a 2 year stint in Congress, everyone...
Aug.08.2000
It is the year 2090 A. D.
The United States ceased to exist twenty years earlier, after the Supreme Court declared all participates in an abortion subject to execution. Six fragmentary nation-states emerged out of the violence following from this Great Dissolution.
Many of the six heads of state have been systematically assassinated, and a militant religious group, the True Way,...
About Robert
ROBERT G. PlELKE
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(909) 624-2965
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http://www.bobpielke.com
EDUCATION
Writers Workshops at UCLA: fiction; screenplays; film & book reviews; features
National Endowment For the Humanities Seminar in...
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