The Sound of the City
Subtitle: The Rise of Rock and Roll
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Published: May 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780285626195
Subjects: Rock & pop; Genres & Styles - Rock; Rock Music; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Music
First sentence: In tracing the history of rock and roll, it is useful to distinguish rock 'n' roll-the particular kind of music to which the term was first applied-both from rock and roll-the music that has been classified as such since rock 'n' roll petered out around 1958-and from rock, which describes post-1964 derivations of rock 'n' roll.