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The rock history reader / edited by Theo Cateforis.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Cateforis, Theo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, ©2007.
Subjects:
Rock music > History and criticism.
Rock music.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • The 1950s. Chuck Berry : in his own words
  • R & B : a danger to the music business? / Abel Green
  • 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
  • The 1960s. Phil Spector and the wall of sound / Ronnie Spector
  • The Beatles, Press Conference, 1964
  • "Beatlemania frightens child expert" / Bernard Saibel
  • George Martin: on the Beatles
  • "Understanding Dylan" / Paul Williams
  • Motown : a whiter shade of black / Jon Landau
  • "An interview with Wilson Pickett" / Jim Delehant
  • 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 country boom" / Barret Hansen
  • Woodstock nation / Joan and Robert K. Morrison
  • The 1970s. James Taylor, singer-songwriter / Burt Korall
  • "Cock rock : men always seem to end up on top"
  • 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
  • Art rock / John Rockwell
  • "Why don't we call it punk?" / Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
  • The subculture of British punk / Dick Hebdige
  • Disco : four critics address the musical question
  • "The confessions of a gay rocker" / Adam Block
  • The 1980s. Punk goes hardcore / Jack Rabid
  • College rock : "left of the dial" / Gina Arnold
  • "Roll over, guitar heroes : synthesizers are here" / Jon Young
  • "The MTV aesthetic" / Richard Gehr
  • Post-punk's "radical dance fictions" / Simon Reynolds
  • Molly Hatchett : celebrity rate a record
  • "The cult of violence" / Tipper Gore
  • Heavy metal and the highbrow/lowbrow divide / Robert Walser
  • "The real thing--Bruce Springsteen" / Simon Frith
  • Hip hop nation / Greg Tate
  • "Madonna--finally a real feminist" / Camille Paglia
  • "Can Madonna justify Madonna?" / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • 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
  • Fat Boy Slim explains electronic dance music / Michael Gelfand
  • Nü metal and Woodstock '99 / Barry Walters
  • Indie pop goes twee / Joey Sweeney
  • The 2000s. "My week on the Avril Lavigne E-team" / Chris Dahlen
  • "Punk's earnest new mission" / Michael Azerrad
  • "Rip. Burn. Die." : the music industry sings the blues / David Sheff and Rob Tannenbaum
  • "The rap against rockism" / Kelefa Sanneh.

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