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IPPY Award in Popular Culture

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Sponsoring Organization: Independent Publisher
Award Level: Gold|Award Year: 2023
Award Category: Popular Culture
Winner(s): Rock & Roll of Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s, by Richard Aquila 

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Richard Aquila
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Richard Aquila

Richard Aquila (Buffalo, NY) is professor emeritus of history and American Studies at Penn State University and the former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America. He is the author of The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America and Let's Rock! How 1950s America Created Elvis and the Rock & Roll Craze.

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