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Rock and roll : a social history

Author: Paul Friedlander
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An overview of rock and roll's first thirty-five years.
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Paul Friedlander
ISBN: 0813327245 9780813327242 0813327253 9780813327259
OCLC Number: 33009323
Description: ix, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. If I Were Reading About Rock Music, I Would Want to Keep in Mind... --
2. The Roots of Rock and Roll: I Went Down to the Crossroads --
3. Classic Rockers - the First Generation: Just Give Me Some of That Rock and Roll Music --
4. Classic Rockers - the Second Generation: There's Good Rockin' Tonight --
5. Doo-Wop: Street Corner Serenade --
6. The Early Sixties: The Calm Before the Storm --
7. The Beatles: Because the World Is Round It Turns Me On --
8. The Rolling Stones: It's Only Rock and Roll but I Like It --
9. The Who: People Try to Put Us Down --
10. Bob Dylan: Somethin' Is Happening, but You Don't Know What It Is --
11. Folk-Rock: So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star --
12. Soul Music: R-E-S-P-E-C-T --
13. Motown: Hitsville, U.S.A. --
14. The San Francisco Sound: People in Motion --
15. The Guitar Kings: And I Gave Her the Gun --
16. The Seventies: Dazed and Confused --
17. Punk Rock: Buzzsaw Bravado and Shock Politics --
18. The Eighties: The Revolution Will Be Televised --
19. It's Only Rock and Roll but I Like It --
Appendix A: Some Artists Who Fell Through the Cracks --
Appendix B: The Rock Window - One to Listen and Understand.
Responsibility: Paul Friedlander.
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An overview of rock and roll's first thirty-five years.

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