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Rock & roll : an unruly history
- Title
- Rock & roll : an unruly history / Robert Palmer.
- Author
- Palmer, Robert, 1945-1997.
- Publication
- New York : Harmony Books, [1995], ©1995.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ML3534 .P33 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 325 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- Rock & Roll: An Unruly History is a full-scale salute to rock that is also a companion to the ten-part public television series, illuminating the roots of rock and exploring the "rock and roll culture" that surrounds the music. Robert Palmer, a preeminent rock critic and musician who was the chief advisor for the public television series, explores the complex creative processes that have allowed rock music to endure as a living art, fed from sources deep within nonconformist, anti-mainstream, often multiethnic American culture. By focusing on its roots and branchings, Palmer charts rock's ongoing developmental processes, showing how its many tributaries - from blues and gospel to reggae, punk, and rap - converge and connect to create the most insightful history of rock and roll ever written.
- Rock & Roll: An Unruly History is a full-scale salute to rock that is also a companion to the ten-part public television series, illuminating the roots of rock and exploring the "rock and roll culture" that surrounds the music.
- Robert Palmer, a preeminent rock critic and musician who was the chief advisor for the public television series, explores the complex creative processes that have allowed rock music to endure as a living art, fed from sources deep within nonconformist, anti-mainstream, often multiethnic American culture.
- By focusing on its roots and branchings, Palmer charts rock's ongoing developmental processes, showing how its many tributaries - from blues and gospel to reggae, punk, and rap - converge and connect to create the most insightful history of rock and roll ever written.
- Uniform Title
- Rock & roll (Television program)
- Alternative Title
- Rock and roll
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Companion book to the PBS television series.
- Bibliography (note)
- Discography: p. 293-299.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-303) and index.
- Contents
- Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On -- Be My Baby -- I put a spell on you -- R-E-S-P-E-C-T -- A Rolling Stone -- Crossroads -- Delinquents of heaven, hoodlums from hell -- Eight Miles High -- Walk on the Wild Side -- The church of the sonic guitar -- Brand New Bag -- Blank Generation -- Planet Rock -- Discography.
- ISBN
- 0517700506
- 9780517700501
- LCCN
- 95013367
- OCLC
- ocm32237445
- 32237445
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries