Rock category: 3054 books
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
The bad boy of American rock music. Rod Stewart always had a woman on his arm. He has had the ideal rock and roll career. He's done it all, sex, drugs and rock and roll. If you were alive in 1971, you have never forgotten "Maggie May", the story of an older woman and a young college student who...
Pop-Rock Music
Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related techniques. The history of pop-rock...
Experiencing Progressive Rock
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
In Experiencing Progressive Rock: A Listener's Companion, Robert G. H. Burns brings together the many strands that define the "prog rock" movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s to chart the evolution of this remarkable rock tradition over the decades.
Originating in the 1960s...
by Wayne Robins
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The birth of rock ‘n’ roll signaled the blossoming of a new teenage culture, dividing generations and introducing a new attitude of rebellion and independence. From Chuck Berry to the Beatles, from punk rock to hip hop, rock ‘n’ roll has continuously transformed alongside or in reaction to...
Rock Over the Edge
Transformations in Popular Music Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
This collection brings new voices and new perspectives to the study of popular—and particularly rock—music. Focusing on a variety of artists and music forms, Rock Over the Edge asks what happens to rock criticism when rock is no longer a coherent concept. To work toward an answer, contributors...
Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll
Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock 'n' Soul Eccentrics
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
For nearly twenty years, the much-beloved music magazine Roctober has featured work by some of the best underground cartoonists, exhaustive examinations of made-up genres such as “robot rock,” and an ongoing exploration of everything Sammy Davis Jr. ever sang, said, or did. But the heart of the...
Rock Guitar Essentials
Gig Savers Complete Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Rock Guitar Essentials: Gig Savers Complete Edition combines Corey Christiansen's five previous pocket-sized books. Part 1 of this comprehensive edition gives aspiring rock guitarists a working knowledge of the most basic scales commonly used to improvise rock solos and write rock melodies. A discussion...
La causa nacional
Historias del rock en Colombia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Por primera vez alguien se arriesga a poner sobre el papel las principales historias de 50 años de rock nacional
Hace 60 años se grabó "Very, Very Well", el primer rock and roll hecho en Colombia. Hace 50 años Los Speakers produjeron un disco de otro planeta. Hace 40 años Crash...
Rock and Romanticism
Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present....
by Christian Vignol
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Quand la musique bouleverse la société...1955. Un orage musical de 180 secondes secoue la planète : c’est la naissance du rock’n’roll. Finis les chanteurs guimauves. Phénomène sans précédent, le « Rock around the clock » de Bill Haley met le feu aux poudres. Il est l’homme par...
by Marcelo Fernandez Bitar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Introducción de Luis Alberto Spinetta. Prólogo de Adrián Dárgelos y fotos de Nora Lezano.
Autor de un libro mítico e inconseguible de 1987, Fernández Bitar agrega información y testimonios recopilados a lo largo de toda su carrera como periodista especializado para ofrecer la enciclopedia...
1000 Songs that Rock Your World
From Rock Classics to one-Hit Wonders, the Music That Lights Your Fire
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
1000 Songs That Rock Your World is the ultimate visual guide to the best rock music ever produced. From Abba to ZZ Top, it's not simply the ideal playlist, it's a one-stop catalog of a half-century of Rock 'n' Roll.
Showcasing songs by nearly 500 artists in all rock genres, 1000 Songs That...
Rock Bottom
Dark Moments In Music Babylon
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1996
The dark moments of rock history fascinate and tantalize like the pathos of Greek tragedy. The bottom sinks lower, the air seems colder, the bad endings--when they are bad--seem beyond bad. The unlucky practitioners of our most thriving form of communal experience seem to hit rock bottom in ways only...
Entertain Us
The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties In 1990 alternative music was where it belonged - underground. It left the business of rock stardom to rock stars. But by 1992 alternative rock had spawned a revolution in music and style that transformed youth culture and revived a moribund music...