The history of rock 'n' roll in ten songs
By: Greil Marcus
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780300187373
Subjects: Rock music; Rockmusik; History and criticism; Rock 'n' Roll; Rocksong
Other titles: History of rock and roll in ten songs; Rock 'n' roll in ten songs; Rock 'n' roll in 10 songs; Rock and roll in ten songs; Rock and roll in 10 songs
Description: Selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 that embody rock and roll as a thing in itself--in the story each song tells, inhabits, and creates in its legacy.
Notes: Includes discography, bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shake some action -- : 1976; title: Transmission -- : 2007/1979/2010; title: In the still of the nite -- : 1956/1959/2010; title: All I could do was cry -- : 2013/1960/ 2008; title: Crying, waiting, hoping -- : 1959/1969; title: Another history of rock 'n' roll --; title: Money (that's what I want) -- : 1959/1963 and; title: Money changes everything -- : 1978/1983/2008/2005; title: This magic moment -- : 2007/1959; title: Guitar drag -- : 2006/2000; title: To know him is to love him-- : 1958/2006.