Rock category: 3054 books
Rocking the Classics : English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 1996
Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction mythology and fantasy literature and above all for its attempts to combine classical...
Jingle Jangle Morning
Folk-Rock in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Jingle Jangle Morning is the story of how folk and rock merged in the 1960s to create folk-rock, injecting social consciousness and poetic lyricism into popular music to scale heights that neither folk nor rock could have reached without blending. It draws on more than 100 first-hand interviews with...
Let's Rock!
How 1950s America Created Elvis and the Rock and Roll Craze
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Rock & roll was one of the most important cultural developments in post–World War II America, yet its origins are shrouded in myth and legend*. Let’s Rock!* reclaims the lost history of rock & roll. Based on years of research, as well as interviews with Bo Diddley, Pat Boone, and other...
by Francesco Primerano
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Il manuale in questione vuol celebrare piu' di 50 anni di Musica Rock.....
il nostro amico e fratello Rock.. il Rock senza tempo...il Rock dei popoli..il Rock che ha siglato intere generazioni di fenomeni,contribuendo a cambiare il Mondo nella Cultura,nell'Arte,nel Costume,nella nostra amata Societa'....In...
British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977
The Story of Music Hall in Rock
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so by ironically appropriating...
Right to Rock
The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
The original architects of rock ’n’ roll were black musicians including Little Richard, Etta James, and Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix electrified rock with his explosive guitar in the late 1960s. Yet by the 1980s, rock music produced by African Americans no longer seemed to be “authentically black.”...
by Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Rock and roll's death has been forecast nearly since its birth; the country song "The Death of Rock and Roll" appeared in September 1956, showing that the music had already outraged a more conservative listening audience. Is Rock Dead? sets out to explore the varied and sometimes conflicting...
Before Elvis
The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ‘n’ Roll surveys the origins of rock ’n’ roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a far broader and deeper analysis of...
What You Want Is in the Limo
On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
An epic joyride through three history-making tours in 1973 that defined rock and roll superstardom—the money, the access, the excess—forevermore.
The Who’s Quadrophenia. Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy. Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies. These three unprecedented tours—and...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Before there was Prince, before there was Michael Jackson, before even the Beatles there was Little Richard, a true Rock and Roll trailblazer.It seems like everybody in Rock and Roll has a title. James Brown is called the Godfather of Soul. Elvis, of course, is the King. In the Legends of Rock...
by Rita Gilligan
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Meet Rita Gilligan, Hard Rock Cafe’s original ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ waitress and international cultural ambassador and MBE. It was 1971 when Hard Rock first opened its doors in London, and Rita was there with her spunky, chatty, and absolutely lovable personality. Over the forty-five years she...
Rock Gets Religion
The Battle for the Soul of the Devil's Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Rock music, once largely the domain of hedonism and debauchery of every kind, is now populated by a surprising case of upstanding and in many cases devout citizens who create all different kinds of music and oftentimes are animated by religious ideas that would have been completely alien to rock stars...
The Theater Will Rock
A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
The tumultuous decade of the 1960s in America gave birth to many new ideas and forms of expression, among them the rock musical. An unlikely offspring of the performing arts, the rock musical appeared when two highly distinctive and American art forms joined onstage in New York City. The Theater Will...
by Ian F. Svenonius
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
"Proscriptive how-to advice ranges over a wide number of subjects (e.g., sex, band photos, etc.) and can be seen both as skewering the cultural idolatry associated with rock and as genuine counsel. Verdict: Svenonius's sociopolitical analysis of rock and roll is intellectually interesting, as...