Rock category: 3054 books
Science Fiction in Classic Rock
Musical Explorations of Space, Technology and the Imagination, 1967-1982
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
As technology advances, society retains its mythical roots—a tendency evident in rock music and its enduring relationship with myth and science fiction. This study explores the mythical and fantastic themes of artists from the late 1960s to the mid–1980s, including David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Jefferson...
Patti Smith
Outside
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
"Outside. Outside of society. That’s where I want to be. If you’re looking, that’s where you’ll find me.” This is what Patti Smith sang back in 1978. Where is she in 2015? With all the fame and recognition. With thirteen original albums released, her poetry regularly reprinted, her...
Almost Grown
Living with a Dansette in the Dining Room
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Pete Fowler has been a writer, lecturer, university professor, railway enthusiast, question-setter for Johnny Walker's Radio One quiz, Pop the Question, and very nearly a rock star. Almost Grown opens with a brush with death and proceeds to explore the author's awakening to life, in the Fifties and...
by Bob Oedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The Punk Rock Las Vegas Survival Guide is a Las Vegas travel guide for punks. Thousands of punk rock music enthusiasts from all over the globe travel to Las Vegas on Memorial Day weekend for an annual pilgrimage of live shows and tournament bowling. They begin planning for the next year as early as...
Mavericks of Sound
Conversations with Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
In Mavericks of Sound: Conversations with the Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music, music scholar David Ensminger offers a collection of vivid and compelling interviews with legendary roots rock and indie artists who bucked mainstream trends and have remained resilient in the face of enormous...
When We Were the Boys
Coming of Age on Rod Stewart's Out of Order Tour
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This book is a backstage pass to the ups, downs, and all-out craziness of arena rock—deep discussions with Rod Stewart, jamming with legends like Mick Jagger and Justin Timberlake, gaining groupies, and striking out solo. Stevie Salas was one of many boys coming of age in the 1980s—when the American...
Back to the Miracle Factory
Rock Etc. 1990's
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Paul Williams has been writing about pop music for decades, never flagging in his enthusiasm or his emotional and intellectual openness to the newest music. He has been doing this ever since he founded the rock magazine, Crawdaddy, in 1966. His insight into how it feels when we listen to certain performers...
Archivo José Agustín: El hotel de los corazones solitarios
Y otros (muchos) textos sobre rock.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 29, 2018
"José Agustín es una de las más notables manifestaciones del rock mexicano, probablemente mucho más potente y más significativa que buena parte de las bandas que han surgido en este país"
RULO, tomado del prólogo
José Agustín es una de las plumas más potentes de la...
by Fernando Garcia, Juan Villoro
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 14, 2016
"Cómo entrevistar a una estrella de rock y no morir en el intento" ofrece un acoso múltiple a algunas de las principales figuras del siglo XX. El autor sube a un automóvil para perseguir el convoy de Paul McCartney por las calles de Buenos Aires hasta entablar una "conversación"...
Birds of Fire
Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Birds of Fire brings overdue critical attention to fusion, a musical idiom that emerged as young musicians blended elements of jazz, rock, and funk in the late 1960s and 1970s. At the time, fusion was disparaged by jazz writers and ignored by rock critics. In the years since, it has come to be seen...
Working Class Heroes
Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
In Working Class Heroes, David Simonelli explores the influence of rock and roll on British society in the 1960s and '70s. At a time when social distinctions were becoming harder to measure, rock musicians appeared to embody the mythical qualities of the idealized working class by perpetuating the image of rebellious, irreverent, and authentic musicians.
by Chris Walter
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
YOU’LL HATE THIS BOOK because it may or may not include your high school band that played one gymnasium show back in ‘95. But these hair-raising tales of battles lost and won might grab your attention anyway, even if the ruffians telling those stories sometimes disagree on the details. Recalling...
Killer Show
The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
On February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock standard, the fate of many of the unsuspecting nightclub patrons was determined with awful certainty....
All Fired Up
True Romance Rocker Series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Don't let the tattoos, black eyeliner and spiked hair fool you – Quick Silverman is not the dangerous bad boy he appears to be on the outside. A career musician who spent his youth chasing down the rock and roll dream, Quick finally has the brass ring in his sights, thanks to an invitation to join...