What Is Rock And Roll

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Rock N Roll Movies

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Author : David Sterritt
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-18

Rock N Roll Movies written by David Sterritt and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-18 with Performing Arts categories.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Movies presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies to Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde meditations to reverent biopics to animated shorts to performance documentaries. Acclaimed film critic David Sterritt considers the diverse ways that filmmakers have regarded rock ‘n’ roll, some cynically cashing in on its popularity and others responding to the music as sincere fans, some depicting rock as harmless fun and others representing it as an open challenge to mainstream norms.

Do You Believe In Rock And Roll

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Author : Raymond I. Schuck
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2012-10-06

Do You Believe In Rock And Roll written by Raymond I. Schuck and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-06 with Music categories.

Since its release in 1971, Don McLean's song "American Pie" has become an indelible part of U.S. culture. It has sparked countless debates about the references within the lyrics; been celebrated as a chronicle of American life from the late 1950s through the early 1970s; and has become iconic itself as it has been remade, parodied, and referenced within numerous texts and forums. This volume offers a set of new essays that focus on the cultural and historical significance of the song. Representing a variety of perspectives and fields of study, the essays address such topics as historical and literary interpretations of the song's lyrics, its musical qualities, the commentary the song offers on rock and roll history, the continuing significance of the song, and the ways in which the song has been used by various writers and artists. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

The Golden Age Of Rock N Roll

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Author : Richard Havers
language : en
Publisher: Book Sales Inc
Release Date : 2010-04

The Golden Age Of Rock N Roll written by Richard Havers and has been published by Book Sales Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with Music categories.

Chronicles the history of blues music from its emergence in the early 1900s through the twentieth century, and describes the musical accomplishments of Leadbelly, Bessie Smith, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, and others. Includes an audio CD.

Rock N Roll S Strangest Moments

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Author : Mike Evans
language : en
Publisher: Batsford
Release Date : 2014-03-28

Rock N Roll S Strangest Moments written by Mike Evans and has been published by Batsford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-28 with Music categories.

Rock music, since its pre-history in blues, country music and 40s and early 50s pop, through to the well-publicised excesses of touring bands of today, has left a legacy of thousands of weird and wonderful stories in its wake. We’ve all read about the Who’s Keith Moon driving a Rolls Royce into a hotel swimming pool, but far more bizarre tales of on-the-road mayhem have never been widely told. Likewise, Svengali-like managers have manipulated starstruck musicians since rock began, though hanging your well-known client from a third floor window was a less usual way of ensuring their loyalty. And just where was the stalled hotel lift in which all four Beatles, according to legend, were turned on to marijuana? There are the unsung heroes of rock – pioneering eccentrics who helped make the music what it is and ended up as mere footnotes in the history books. Men such as UK producer Joe Meek who created seminal classics from a bed-sit above a cleaners on the Holloway Road, and the New York DJ who originally coined the phrase ‘rock 'n’roll’ and died in alcoholic poverty. Not to mention the stories behind the stars: when Debbie Harry was a 'Playboy' Bunny, Paul Simon wrote ‘Homeward Bound’ on Widnes railway station in Lancashire, and the Gallagher brothers (so they claim) were petty thieves.

Rock N Roll

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Author : Dave Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-14

Rock N Roll written by Dave Rogers and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with Social Science categories.

When rock ‘n’ roll began its ascendancy in the 1950s the older generation saw it as dangerous, renegade, threatening the moral stability of a nation. Young people saw it as freedom, and most importantly, as their music. The teenage revolution was here, This book, first published in 1982, traces the roots of this cultural transformation, its emergence in rock ‘n’ roll and other media, and shows just how violent the confrontation was by looking at contemporary newspaper reports.

Text And Drugs And Rock N Roll

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Author : Simon Warner
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-03-14

Text And Drugs And Rock N Roll written by Simon Warner and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-14 with Music categories.

Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll explores the interaction between two of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years - the literary forces of the Beat Generation and the musical energies of rock and its attendant culture. Simon Warner examines the interweaving strands, seeded by the poet/novelists Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others in the 1940s and 1950s, and cultivated by most of the major rock figures who emerged after 1960 - Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Bowie, the Clash and Kurt Cobain, to name just a few. This fascinating cultural history delves into a wide range of issues: Was rock culture the natural heir to the activities of the Beats? Were the hippies the Beats of the 1960s? What attitude did the Beat writers have towards musical forms and particularly rock music? How did literary works shape the consciousness of leading rock music-makers and their followers? Why did Beat literature retain its cultural potency with later rock musicians who rejected hippie values? How did rock musicians use the material of Beat literature in their own work? How did Beat figures become embroiled in the process of rock creativity? These questions are addressed through a number of approaches - the influence of drugs, the relevance of politics, the effect of religious and spiritual pursuits, the rise of the counter-culture, the issue of sub-cultures and their construction, and so on. The result is a highly readable history of the innumerable links between two of the most revolutionary artistic movements of the last 60 years.

Sex Genes And Rock N Roll

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Author : Rob Brooks
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2011

Sex Genes And Rock N Roll written by Rob Brooks and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social Science categories.

Why are people getting fatter? Why do so many rock stars end up dead at 27? Is there any hope of curbing population growth, rampant consumerism and the environmental devastation they wreak? Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks argues that the origins of these twenty-first century problems can be found where the ancient forces of evolution collide w...

History Of Rock N Roll In Ten Songs

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Author : Greil Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-02

History Of Rock N Roll In Ten Songs written by Greil Marcus and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with Music categories.

The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train “ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Unlike previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how each embodies rock ’n’ roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out—a new language, something new under the sun. “Transmission” by Joy Division. “All I Could Do Was Cry” by Etta James and then Beyoncé. “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” first by the Teddy Bears and almost half a century later by Amy Winehouse. In Marcus’s hands these and other songs tell the story of the music, which is, at bottom, the story of the desire for freedom in all its unruly and liberating glory. Slipping the constraints of chronology, Marcus braids together past and present, holding up to the light the ways that these striking songs fall through time and circumstance, gaining momentum and meaning, astonishing us by upending our presumptions and prejudices. This book, by a founder of contemporary rock criticism—and its most gifted and incisive practitioner—is destined to become an enduring classic. “One of the epic figures in rock writing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Marcus is our greatest cultural critic, not only because of what he says but also, as with rock-and-roll itself, how he says it.”—The Washington Post Winner of the Deems Taylor Virgil Thomson Award in Music Criticism, given by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers

Rock N Roll

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Author : Tom Stoppard
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2007

Rock N Roll written by Tom Stoppard and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Drama categories.

"Rock 'n' Roll spans the years from 1968 to 1990 from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock 'n' roll band comes to symbolise resistance to the Communist regime, and of Cambridge where the verities of love and death are shaping the lives of three generations in the family of a Marxist philosopher." "Rock 'n' Roll premiered at The Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2006." --Book Jacket.

How The Beatles Destroyed Rock N Roll

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Author : Elijah Wald
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2011-10

How The Beatles Destroyed Rock N Roll written by Elijah Wald and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10 with Music categories.

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar cliches of jazz and rock, looks at what people were playing, hearing and dancing to over the course of the 20th century, using a wealth of original research, curious quotations, and an irreverent fascination with the oft-despised commercial mainstream.