Roadrunner - Singles

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song "Roadrunner" captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the radio on. Although the song circles Boston's beltway, its significance reaches far beyond Richman's deceptively simple declarations of love for modern moonlight, the made world, and rock & roll. In Roadrunner, cultural theorist and poet Joshua Clover charts both the song's emotional power and its elaborate history, tracing its place in popular music from Chuck Berry to M.I.A. He also locates "Roadrunner" at the intersection of car culture, industrialization, consumption, mobility, and politics. Like the song itself, Clover tells a story about a particular time and place-the American era that rock & roll signifies-that becomes a story about love and the modern world.

ISBN:	9781478013471
Publisher:	Duke University Press Books
Imprint:	Duke University Press
Published date:	12 Oct 2021
DEWEY:	782.42166092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	132
Weight:	363g
Height:	178mm
Width:	178mm

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