Ronald Brownstein. (2021). Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Ronald Brownstein. 2021. Rock Me On the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics. HarperAudio.

Ronald Brownstein, Rock Me On the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics. HarperAudio, 2021.

Ronald Brownstein. Rock Me On the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2021.

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     Ronald Brownstein, a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of presidential campaigns, is a senior editor at The Atlantic, and a senior political analyst for CNN. He also served as the national political correspondent and national affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times and covered he White House and national politics for the National Journal. He is the author of six previous books, most recently, The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America.

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In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein—"one of America's best political journalists (The Economist)—tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles' creative peak, a glittering moment when popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become.
Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Los Angeles that year, in fact, dominated popular culture more than it ever had before, or would again. Working in film, recording, and television studios around Sunset Boulevard, living in Brentwood and Beverly Hills or amid the flickering lights of the Hollywood Hills, a cluster of transformative talents produced an explosion in popular culture which reflected the demographic, social, and cultural realities of a changing America. At a time when Richard Nixon won two presidential elections with a message of backlash against the social changes unleashed by the sixties, popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become. The early 1970s in Los Angeles was the time and the place where conservatives definitively lost the battle to control popular culture.

Rock Me on the Water traces the confluence of movies, music, television, and politics in Los Angeles month by month through that transformative, magical year. Ronald Brownstein reveals how 1974 represented a confrontation between a massive younger generation intent on change, and a political order rooted in the status quo. Today, we are again witnessing a generational cultural divide. Brownstein shows how the voices resistant to change may win the political battle for a time, but they cannot hold back the future.

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     January 18, 2021
     CNN political analyst Brownstein (The Second Civil War) argues in this sweeping cultural history that L.A. in 1974 exerted more influence over music, movies, and television “than it ever had before, or would again.” Brownstein highlights Chinatown, Shampoo, and Nashville as examples of the edgier, more socially relevant films Hollywood made in the brief window between the collapse of the studio system and the rise of blockbusters. In music, the Eagles personified the “easy-riding, hard-partying soundtrack to Los Angeles’s golden hour,” Brownstein writes, while musicians such as Jackson Browne followed a circuitous path to success. Brownstein credits CBS for revolutionizing TV with shows (All in the Family, M*A*S*H, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show) that dealt with contemporary social issues and appealed to a wide demographic. Married couple Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda’s anti–Vietnam War activism and Jerry Brown’s rise to the governorship, meanwhile, illuminate the links between L.A.’s political and cultural scenes. Enriched by interviews with the period’s luminaries, including Warren Beatty and Linda Ronstadt, this astute and wide-ranging account shows how L.A. led the U.S. into an era when the 1960s counterculture became mainstream.

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     Atlantic senior editor Brownstein recounts the annus mirabilis that produced some of the most memorable songs, films, and TV shows in pop-culture history. In a book that neatly brackets William McKeen's Everybody Had an Ocean (2017), Brownstein conjures up the Los Angeles of 1974. It was a time of endless possibility, marked by countless highlights: Chinatown, Linda Ronstadt's album Heart Like a Wheel, the completion of the first draft of the screenplay that would give birth to the Star Wars franchise, and the political rise of former seminarian Jerry Brown. In TV, Norman Lear had cornered the market on socially conscious, sometimes controversial comedy, as when the lead character of Maude got pregnant at age 47 and got an abortion. "Though the city was not yet the liberal political bastion it would grow into," writes the author, "Los Angeles emerged as the capital of cultural opposition to Nixon." Some of this opposition was seemingly innocent: The Mary Tyler Moore Show was funny, but it advanced the thesis that women could work, live single lives, and be happy while Jackson Browne proved himself a pioneer of painful self-introspection. But that innocence is illusory. As Brownstein writes, 1974 also saw a tidal wave of cocaine wash over LA, the favorite party appetizer of the film set, the music crowd, and celebrities alike. Brownstein also takes in a wide swath of the world outside LA, from the denouement of the Patty Hearst kidnapping to the emergence of Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda as a political power couple. There's some nice dish, too, as when Carroll O'Connor demanded artistic control of All in the Family because the Jewish writers wouldn't understand the mind of a working-class Christian; and shrewd cultural analysis, as when Brownstein chronicles the transition by Browne and his contemporaries "from celebrating the freedom that revolution unlocked to tabulating its cost in impermanence and instability." An endlessly engaging cultural history that will resonate with anyone alive in 1974.

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     March 1, 2021
     It's a bold claim: in one year, 1974, Los Angeles shaped America's popular culture more than ever before (or since). But Brownstein, a CNN political analyst and journalist, backs up his claim with evidence. The films Chinatown, The Godfather Part II, and The Conversation were all released in that year. Joni Mitchell released her now-classic album Court and Spark. On the small screen, CBS became a ratings powerhouse when it put several of its hit comedies (including All in the Family and M*A*S*H ) on a single night. And, in politics, Jerry Brown was elected governor of California--a young and ambitious politician who would bring in sweeping changes. These examples barely scratch the surface: the depth of this book is quite impressive. Brownstein knits together the threads of history to show that, for the first time in 1974, politics and entertainment were not separate things, that the line between the two was blurred almost to the point of irrelevance. An insightful, expertly written book.

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   • content: Senior CNN editor and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ronald Brownstein offers his treatise that 1974 was the year when Los Angeles rose to be the pinnacle of creative cultural output for all major media. Narrator Will Damron, with considerable ease and grace, raises the interest and entertainment levels significantly. Using pleasing tones, his spot-on phrasing and inflection rise to high artistic levels. Brownstein's emphatic and frequent emphasis on the political sphere may weaken the strength of the insights to be gleaned. There is, of course, no question that an era that offered "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Bob Newhart Show," as well as the musicality of the Laurel Canyon phenomenon, including The Mamas and the Papas and Carole King, make this period a welcome memory lane to traverse. W.A.G. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
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     November 19, 2021
     

     Brownstein (The Power and the Glitter) attempts to break down the year 1974 into transformative monthly moments in movies, television, music, and politics in Los Angeles. He offers Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty as examples of the dismantling of the Hollywood establishment and showcases the evolution of television through CBS's lineup of All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, revolutionary in their connection of plot lines to contemporary life, as well as M*A*S*H, which blended comedy and drama and introduced the 1970s trope of the sensitive man. While the music of the '70s was rife with talent and broken barriers, Brownstein focuses only on Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, and the Eagles as examples that transcended genres, and his coverage of politics is limited to Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda and the gubernatorial candidacy of Jerry Brown. The book covers blaxploitation films, Black-owned record labels, and the rise of female directors on television as indicators of forward movement. VERDICT Brownstein spends much more time on the years before 1974 than actual events occurring that year, and much of the content is repetitive, but there are interesting backstories that fans of television history will enjoy.--Lisa Henry, Kirkwood P.L., MO

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Los Angeles that year, in fact, dominated popular culture more than it ever had before, or would again. Working in film, recording, and television studios around Sunset Boulevard, living in Brentwood and Beverly Hills or amid the flickering lights of the Hollywood Hills, a cluster of transformative talents produced an explosion in popular culture which reflected the demographic, social, and cultural realities of a changing America. At a time when Richard Nixon won two presidential elections with a message of...

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