In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May 68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the world. Eric Drott examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May 68 on a wide variety of music in France, from the initial shock of 1968 through the long 1970s and the election of Mitterrand and the socialists in 1981. Drott s detailed account of how diverse music communities developed in...