Road Trip into Music: A Southern California Journey, 1960s-1970s

by Russell J. Dalton, Diego Garzia, Alexander H. Trechsel

This is a book about the artists, music, and sights of Southern California in the 1960s and 1970s. These decades were a magical age for music. We take you on a road trip to the sights and locales of these decades—the mystique of Laurel Canyon where folk-rock artists from Jim Morrison to Joni Mitchell made their home. The South Bay where Dick Dale and The Beach Boys created the surfer sound. The Beatles in LA. The Eagles and other new LA rock bands of the 1970s. Motown’s move to Los Angeles including the Jacksons and Stevie Wonder. And through Beverly Hills and Bel Air where the stars lived and died. This book shares some of the stories and full color images of these locales for nearly 50 artists. If you haven’t made it to LA (yet), come on our roadtrip.

Paperback

Published May 31, 2021

About the author

Russell J. Dalton is Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine. He has received a Fulbright Professorship at the University of Mannheim, a Barbra Streisand Center fellowship, German Marshall Research Fellowship and a POSCO Fellowship at the East/West Center. His scholarly interests include comparative political behavior, political parties, social movements, and empirical democratic theory.