Rock and Roll: A Social History

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"This lively, detailed history of rock and roll addresses what notes were played, who played them, and how society was registered between the drum breaks and the power chords."—David Sanjek, BMI Archives
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
As rock and roll enters its fifth decade, critics and scholars have taken up the gauntlet to chart its evolution and examine it within the context of late-20th century civilization. Friedlander, a professor at the Conservatory of Music/University of the Pacific, has done his research, reading Robert Palmer on blues, Dick Hebdige on punk and Tricia Rose on rap, among many others. Still, his tome, despite its subtitle, is better read as a catalogue of rock trivia than as a critique. At the outset, Friedlander traces how gospel, country and blues have influenced everyone from Marvin Gaye and Elvis to the Who. Looking back across classic, alternative, punk and folk rock, Friedlander postulates a rather obvious recipe for success: seizing the moment and having a team approach (talent, manager, producer label support). In his conclusion, he speculates on the oligarchy of the few record labels which now dominate the industry. Although not the definitive cultural critique of rock and roll, this does have an appealing tone as Friedlander combines the ebullience of an amateur with the technical fluency of a musician.(Jan.)
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Gorecki (sociology, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) offers a critique of the most common attempts to formulate objective standards in ethics through appeals to human nature, religion, and reason. He considers the role of norm-making concepts in the history of ethical thought, and shows how justifications based on external authoritative sources may be discounted on analytical or practical grounds, using such instances as divine will and Kantian reason. Of interest to political theorists, philosophers, sociologists, and human rights activists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780813327242
  • Publisher: Westview Press
  • Publication date: 1/11/1996
  • Pages: 368
  • Product dimensions: 6.57 (w) x 9.50 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Dr. Paul Friedlander is Director of California State University, Chico Music Industry Program. He is author of the Encyclopedia Americana “Rock Music” entry, many book chapters and journal articles, and is past-president of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music/American Chapter. As a musician, he has sung with Pete Seeger’s Children’s Chorus at Carnegie Hall, played bluegrass banjo at southern music festivals, hit notes with New York homeboys The Chapters, played folk music in Moscow’s Gorki Park, and rock and rolled across the U.S.A.
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Table of Contents

1 I can see clearly now : twenty rock and roll lenses 1
2 The roots of rock and roll : I went down to the crossroads 15
3 Classic rockers - the first generation : just give me some of that rock and roll music 25
4 Classic rockers : the second generation : there's good rockin' tonight 41
5 Doo-wop : street corner serenade 61
6 The early sixties : the calm before the storm 67
7 The Beatles : because the world is round it turns me on 75
8 The Rolling Stones : it's only rock and roll but I like it 101
9 The Who : people try to put us down 117
10 Bob Dylan : somethin' is happening, but you don't know what it is 131
11 Folk-rock : so you want to be a rock and roll star 145
12 Soul music : R-E-S-P-E-C-T 155
13 Motown : Hitsville, U.S.A. 169
14 The San Francisco sound : people in motion 185
15 The guitar kings : and I gave her the gun 205
16 The seventies : dazed and confused 227
17 Punk rock : buzzsaw bravado and shock politics 243
18 The eighties : the revolution will be televised 257
19 Notions from underground : the alternative rock and rap uprisings 273
20 We should be together : festival frenzies, electronic dance music culture, heavy metal metamorphoses, and the deregulation of radio and file sharing 293
App. A Some artists who fell through the cracks 313
App. B The rock window - one way to listen and understand 319
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