Rock & roll : a social history /

Now updated with two new chapters and an extraordinary collection of photographs, this second edition of Paul Friedlander's Rock and Roll: A Social History is a smash hit. The social force of rock and roll music leaps off the page as Paul Friedlander provides impressive insights based on hits f...

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Main Author: Friedlander, Paul
Other Authors: Miller, Peter, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2006]
Edition:Second edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • I can see clearly now : twenty rock and roll lenses
  • The roots of rock and roll : I went down to the crossroads
  • Classic rockers--the first generation : just give me some of that rock and roll music
  • Classic rockers--the second generation : there's good rockin' tonight
  • Doo-wop : street corner serenade
  • The early sixties : the calm before the storm
  • The Beatles : because the world is round it turns me on
  • The Rolling Stones : it's only rock and roll but I like it
  • The Who : people try to put us down
  • Bob Dylan : somethin' is happening, but you dont know what it is
  • Folk-rock : so you want to be a rock and roll star
  • Soul music : r-e-s-p-e-c-t
  • Motown : Hitsville, U.S.A.
  • The San Francisco sound : people in motion
  • The guitar kings : and I gave her the gun
  • The seventies : dazed and confused
  • Punk rock : buzzsaw bravado and shock politics
  • The eighties : the revolution will be televised
  • Notions from the underground : the alternative rock and rap uprisings / by Peter Miller
  • We should be together : festival frenzies, electronic dance music culture, heavy metal metamorphoses, and the deregulation of radio and file sharing / by Peter Miller
  • Appendix A: Some artists who fell through the cracks
  • Appendix B: The rock window : one way to listen and understand.