Rockin’ in the ivory tower: rock music on campus in the sixties

2025/01/02 by Katherine Rye Jewell · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Music History and Culture

paper · doi:10.1080/27708888.2025.2485748

openalex publication_date 2025/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

In 1970, students at Fitchburg State College sued its president for violating their free speech rights – and won. The students had included an Eldridge Cleaver essay containing a “four-letter word”...

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• "Readers would do well to follow Carter’s example & look to the archives of #student groups and campus newspapers for evidence of the lived experience of these #revolutionary moments." - @katejewell.b [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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