Michael J. Kramer), author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), spoke with Ray Haberski about the way rock music became a venue, a medium, and a culture through which diverse groups of people–from the hippies in Berkeley, California to American troops in Saigon, Vietnam–thought about and attempted to create new meanings of citizenship. Kramer discusses such interesting terms as “Hip Capitalism,” “Hip Militarism,” and transnationalism within the expansive contexts of Cold War America and the counterculture. The book offers a model of how to consider culture through the lived experiences of those who produced it and came to embody it.
