KZFR is proud to present music historian and author Dennis McNally in downtown Chico at The Bookstore (118 Main St.) on Mon, Nov 3rd @ 6:30pm. He'll speak about and be signing his new book "On Highway 61: Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom".
Before the book signing he will be a special guest on KZFR's Blues Bayou with host Preston Powers at Noon (on the same day 11/3) on your dial at 90.1 FM & streaming live on this website.
"Why did America turn itself inside out in the 1960s, get so nuts that the culture wars that started then are still being fought in 2014? One of the major reasons, I decided after a lot of research, was the long relationship of white (mostly young) people and black culture (mostly music), going back from minstrelsy (the 1840s) and on up to the 1960s, where you can see it revealed in the music of Bob Dylan. And that’s what On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom (out from Counterpoint Press on October 14, 2014) is about." Read more
Other popular books by McNally...
"A Long
Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead" and "Desolate
Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, and America"
