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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joe S Harrington |
| ISBN: | 0634028618 9780634028618 |
| OCLC Number: | 50623034 |
| Description: | xi, 595 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | The fifties -- Where the music came from -- Elvis gotta gun -- Kill the business -- The Beatles -- The Rolling Stones -- Bob Dylan -- The revolution -- The back to the roots revival -- The struggle -- Excess -- Days of malaise -- Punk -- The eighties -- Post-everything. |
| Responsibility: | Joe Harrington. |
Abstract:
Harrington masterfully presents rock as a movement of near-religious proportions, against a backdrop of social factors and important events such as the invention of the guitar, the jukebox, LSD, the 12-inch phonograph record, the '70s recession, the Reagan Revolution, and the Internet. This is the history of rock as it's never been told, as the legend of a massive cultural movement, one that had meaning, but ultimately failed because it sold its soul. Radically egalitarian in its assessments towering figures such as Lennon, Dylan and Cobain stand along side lesser-known but equally influential artists like the MC5, the Misfits and Joy Division.
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