The rock history reader
By: edited by Theo Cateforis
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY; Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415892124; 9780415892131; 9780203086612
Subjects: Rock music; History and criticism
Notes: "First edition published by Routledge 2007"--title page verso.
Table of contents: title: The 1950s. Chuck Berry : in his own words ; Earl Palmer and the heartbeat of rock 'n' roll / Tony Scherman ; R&B : a danger to the music business? / Abel Green ; 'Miss Rhythm' speaks out : Ruth Brown on R&B and covers ; Elvis Presley and 'the craze' / John Crosby ; Elvis defends low-down style / Kays Gary ; Experts propose study of 'craze' / Milton Bracker ; The rock 'n' roll audience : "But Papa, it's my music, I like it" / Jeff Greenfield ; Leiber & Stoller / Ted Fox ; The history of Chicano rock / Rubén Guevara; title: The 1960s. Music biz goes round and round : it comes out Clarkola / Peter Bunzel ; Phil Spector and the wall of sound / Ronnie Spector ; The Beatles, press conference, 1964 ; Beatlemania frightens child expert / Dr. Bernard Saibel ; George Martin : on the Beatles ; Understanding Dylan / Paul Williams ; Motown : a whiter shade of black / Jon Landau ; James Brown : soul brother no. 1 / Fred Wesley, Jr. ; "Goodbye surfing, hello God!" : the religious conversion of Brian Wilson / Jules Siegel ; Rock and the counterculture / Chester Anderson ; The electric Kool-Aid acid test / Tom Wolfe ; The FM revolution : "AM radio; title: stinking up the airwaves" / Tom Donahue ; An interview with Peter Townshend / Jann Wenner ; The country boom / Barret Hansen; title: The 1970s. Cock rock : men always seem to end up on top / Rat Magazine ; Singing-songwriters : 1971 is a woman's world / Lynn Van Matre ; The art of the hard rock lifestyle / David Lee Roth ; How to be a rock critic / Lester Bangs ; Reggae : the steady rock of black Jamaica / Andrew Kopkind ; Roots and rock : the Marley enigma / Linton Kwesi Johnson ; Dub and the sound of surprise / Richard Williams ; Reflections on progressive rock / Bill Bruford ; Disco! Disco! : four critics address the musical question ; Why don't we call it punk? / Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain ; The subculture of British punk / Dick Hebdige ; The confessions of a gay rocker / Adam Block; title: The 1980s. Punk goes hardcore / Jack Rabid ; College rock : "left of the dial" / Gina Arnold ; Roll over guitar heroes, synthesizers are here / Jon Young ; Post-punk's "radical dance fictions" / Simon Reynolds ; Molly Hatchet : celebrity rate a record / Hit Parader Magazine ; The Parents Music Resource Center : statement before Congress / Susan Baker and Tipper Gore ; Heavy metal and the highbrow/lowbrow divide / Robert Walser ; The real thing; title: Bruce Springsteen / Simon Frith ; Hip hop nation / Greg Tate ; Madonna; title: finally, a real feminist / Camille Paglia ; Can Madonna justify Madonna? / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison; title: The 1990s. Is As nasty as they wanna be obscene? ; Public Enemy's bomb squad / Tom Moon ; The death of sampling? / Mark Kemp ; Kurt Cobain and the politics of damage / Sarah Ferguson ; The problem with music / Steve Albini ; Feminism amplified / Kim France ; Rock aesthetics and musics of the world / Motti Regev ; "Electronic Eden" : techno goes mainstream / Karen Schoemer ; Nü metal and Woodstock '99 / Barry Walters ; Indie pop goes twee / Joey Sweeney ; So you wanna fake being an indie rock expert? / soyouwanna.com; title: The 2000s. Metallica vs. Napster / Lars Ulrich ; My Radiohead adventure / Paul Lansky ; My week on the Avril Lavigne E-Team / Chris Dahlen ; "1 + 1 + 1 = 1" : the new math of mash ups / Sasha Frere-Jones ; That '70s cruise / Chuck Klosterman ; Where have all the rock stars gone? / David Shumway ; Defining emo / Urban Dictionary ; David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the real value of music / David Byrne ; Get your Ph.D. in Gaga / Margaret Eby ; Why no Yes in the Rock Hall? / John Covach ; A response to "Why no Yes in the Rock Hall?" / Lauren Onkey.