In Feedback: The Who and Their Generation, historian Casey Harison offers a cultural and social history of one of the most successful bands of the 1960s British Invasion. In this historically sensitive account of the superband s impact during its first decade, Harison describes the key role played by The Who in the formation of the Atlantic Generation of rock n roll fans. When the band first burst onto the scene, they quickly established their reputation for amping up the volume, pushing distortion effects (feedback), and destroying instruments on stage at the end of performances. If The Who...

A New Social Question: Capitalism, Socialism and Utopia brings together a selection of papers presented at the conference on Capitalism and Socialism: Utopia, Globalization and Revolution at New Harmony, Indiana, in 2014. New Harmony is best known as the site of industrialist Robert Owen's experiment in communal living in 1825, and it was Owen's legacy that drew scholars from across the Atlantic. Owen's work and his experiment at New Harmony again have currency as the world looks back on the 2008 economic crisis and as socialism, seemingly banished with the failure of experiments in Eastern...

The Who were one of the most memorable and influential of the 1960s British Invasion bands memorable because of their loudness and because they destroyed instruments during performances, and influential because of their success in crafting Power Pop singles like My Generation and I Can See for Miles, long-playing albums Live at Leeds and Who s Next, and the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia. The themes that principal songwriter Pete Townshend imparted into The Who s music drew upon the group s mostly working-class London upbringings and early Mod audiences: frustration, angst, irony, and a...