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Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life

Author : Steve Almond
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679603654
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life written by Steve Almond and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drooling fanatic, n. 1. One who drools in the presence of beloved rock stars. 2. Any of a genus of rock-and-roll wannabes/geeks who walk around with songs constantly ringing in their ears, own more than 3,000 albums, and fall in love with at least one record per week. With a life that’s spanned the phonographic era and the digital age, Steve Almond lives to Rawk. Like you, he’s secretly longed to live the life of a rock star, complete with insane talent, famous friends, and hotel rooms to be trashed. Also like you, he’s content (sort of) to live the life of a rabid fan, one who has converted his unrequited desires into a (sort of) noble obsession. Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life traces Almond’s passion from his earliest (and most wretched) rock criticism to his eventual discovery of a music-crazed soul mate and their subsequent production of two little superfans. Along the way, Almond reflects on the delusional power of songs, the awkward mating habits of drooling fanatics, and why Depression Songs actually make us feel so much better. The book also includes: • sometimes drunken interviews with America’s finest songwriters • a recap of the author’s terrifying visit to Graceland while stoned • a vigorous and credibility-shattering endorsement of Styx’s Paradise Theater • recommendations you will often choose to ignore • a reluctant exegesis of the Toto song “Africa” • obnoxious lists sure to piss off rock critics But wait, there’s more. Readers will also be able to listen to a special free mix designed by the author, available online at www.stevenalmond.com, for the express purpose of eliciting your drool. For those about to rock—we salute you!

Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself

Author : John Scanlan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145716
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself written by John Scanlan and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raucous cultural history of rock’s relationship with the moving image. When rock ’n’ roll burst into life in the 1950s, the shockwaves echoed around the world, amplified by images of untamed youth projected on cinema screens. But for the performers themselves, corporate showbusiness remained very much in control, contriving a series of cash-in movies to exploit the new musical fad. In this riveting cultural history, John Scanlan explores rock’s relationship with the moving image over seven decades in cinema, television, music videos, advertising, and YouTube. Along the way, he shows how rock was exploited, how it inspired film pioneers, and, not least, the film transformations it caused over more than half a century. From Elvis Presley to David Bowie, and from Scorpio Rising to the films of Scorsese and DIY documentarists like Don Letts, this is a unique retelling of the story of rock—from birth to old age—through its onscreen life.

Rock 'n' Roll

Author : Dave Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317227719
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Rock 'n' Roll written by Dave Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

That Old-Time Rock & Roll

Author : Richard Aquila
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056809
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book That Old-Time Rock & Roll written by Richard Aquila and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvis Presley and Bill Haley. Sam Cooke and the Shirelles. The Crows and the Chords. American Bandstand and Motown. From its first rumblings in the outland alphabet soup of R&B and C&W, rock & roll music promised to change the world--and did it. Combining social history with a treasure trove of trivia, Richard Aquila unleashes the excitement of rock's first decade and shows how the music reflected American life from the mid-1950s through the dawn of Beatlemania. His year-by-year timelines and a photo essay place the music in historical perspective by linking artists and their hits to the news stories, movies, TV shows, fads, and lifestyles. In addition, he provides a concise biographical dictionary of the performers who made the charts between 1954 and 1963, along with the label and chart position of each of their hit songs.

The History of Rock and Roll

Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1420509772
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The History of Rock and Roll written by Stuart A. Kallen and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock and roll. Those three words are understood by people in almost every nation on Earth. They describe a type of music and an attitude that made history and continues to change the musical landscape. Readers will learn that the music style started out in the United States as a new type of dance music for teenage baby boomers during the mid-1950s. By the 1960s, the music transformed the cultural and political landscape of much of the world. Never before in history has a style of music come along that so quickly and so completely changed the world. Author Stuart Kallen traces the history of rock and roll from its early 1950s beginnings through its most significant developments to date.

The Classic Rock and Roll Reader

Author : William E Studwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317720687
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Classic Rock and Roll Reader written by William E Studwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s is chock full of entertaining essays to inform and delight you about an era that shaped our culture and future musical trends. This unique book will surprise and enchant even the most zealous music buff with facts and information on the songs that reflected America’s spirit and captured a nation’s attention. The Classic Rock and Roll Reader is offbeat, somewhat irreverent, ironic, and ancedotal as it discusses hundreds of rock and non-rock compositions included in rock history era. The songs offer you information on: Rock’s Not So Dull Predecessors (for example, “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” and “The Cry of the Wild Goose”) The Pioneering Rock Songs (such as “Rock Around the Clock” and “Shake, Rattle, and Roll” ) Older Style Songs Amidst the Rocks (for example, “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “Rocky Mountain High” ) The Megastars and Megagroups (such as “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Respect,” and “Surfin’USA” ) The Best Songs that Never Made No. 1 (for example,“ I Feel Good” and “ Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” ) The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s also examines the music which preceded early rock, the music which followed early rock, and the numerous non-rock songs which flourished during the classic rock period. A wide spectrum of music is discussed in well over 100 essays on various songs. Musicians, librarians, and the general audience will be taken back to the birth of rock and roll and the various contributing influences. Analyzing each song’s place in rock history and giving some background about the artists, The Classic Rock and Roll Reader offers even the most avid music enthusiast new and unique information in this thorough and interesting guide.

Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans

Author : Joseph A. Kotarba
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810884836
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans written by Joseph A. Kotarba and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on 18 years of sociological research and 52 years of rock 'n' roll fandom, Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans: The Music Never Ends draws on data collected from participant observations and interviews with artists, fans, and producers to explore our aging rock culture throug...

Shake, Rattle and Roll: Yugoslav Rock Music and the Poetics of Social Critique

Author : Dalibor Mišina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131705671X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shake, Rattle and Roll: Yugoslav Rock Music and the Poetics of Social Critique written by Dalibor Mišina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late-1970s to the late-1980s rock music in Yugoslavia had an important social and political purpose of providing a popular cultural outlet for the unique forms of socio-cultural critique that engaged with the realities and problems of life in Yugoslav society. The three music movements that emerged in this period - New Wave, New Primitives, and New Partisans - employed the understanding of rock music as the 'music of commitment' (i.e. as socio-cultural praxis premised on committed social engagement) to articulate the critiques of the country's 'new socialist culture', with the purpose of helping to eliminate the disconnect between the ideal and the reality of socialist Yugoslavia. This book offers an analysis of the three music movements and their particular brand of 'poetics of the present' in order to explore the movements' specific forms of socio-cultural engagement with Yugoslavia's 'new socialist culture' and demonstrate that their cultural praxis was oriented towards the goal of realizing the genuine Yugoslav socialist-humanist community 'in the true measure of man'. Thus, the book's principal argument is that the driving force behind the music of commitment was, although critical, a fundamentally constructive disposition towards the progressive ideal of socialist Yugoslavia.

The Mammoth Book of Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll

Author : Jim Driver
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1849014612
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll written by Jim Driver and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 60 gripping accounts tracking the dark side of rock 'n' roll from the early days of the drugs-and-drink culture, and the birth of rock 'n' roll, through The Beatles, Stones, Sex Pistols, Madonna, Kurt Cobain and Oasis, to Amy Winehouse, Pete Doherty and other stars of the current rock-music scene. From trashed hotel rooms to cars in swimming pools, all rock 'n' roll's excesses are here, including murder and sexual deviancy, surprising brushes with the law that the stars thought they'd kept quiet, early and tragic deaths, drug overdoses, robbery, mis-marriages and groupies by the truckload

The Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll

Author : Richard Havers
Publisher : Book Sales Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780785826255
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll written by Richard Havers and published by Book Sales Inc. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper

Author : Laurie Kaye
Publisher : Fayetteville Mafia Press
ISBN 13 : 1949024598
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper written by Laurie Kaye and published by Fayetteville Mafia Press. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 8, 1980, twenty-something rock journalist Laurie Kaye entered the legendary Dakota apartments in New York to interview her longtime idol John Lennon. It was the last interview Lennon would ever give— just hours later, outside that same building, Lennon was shot dead by a twenty-five-year-old man (Kaye refuses to name him) whom Kaye herself had encountered after finishing the interview and stepping outside. Kaye has beaten herself up ever since over her failure to recognize that the assassin posed a danger and should have been reported. Here Kaye recounts not just her unfortunate brush with history, but also her turbulent early years growing up in LA and her fascinating, star-packed journey from radio intern to acclaimed writer/producer. Plus interviews with such titans of the music industry as Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Talking Heads, the Ramones, David Bowie, and Mick Jagger.

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199753563
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll written by Elijah Wald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hip hop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history. Rather than concentrating on those traditionally favored styles, the book traces the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies--including the role of records, radio, jukeboxes and television --to give a fuller, more balanced account of the broad variety of music that captivated listeners over the course of the twentieth century. Wald revisits original sources--recordings, period articles, memoirs, and interviews--to highlight how music was actually heard and experienced over the years. And in a refreshing departure from more typical histories, he focuses on the world of working musicians and ordinary listeners rather than stars and specialists. He looks for example at the evolution of jazz as dance music, and rock 'n' roll through the eyes of the screaming, twisting teenage girls who made up the bulk of its early audience. Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and the Beatles are all here, but Wald also discusses less familiar names like Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, Mitch Miller, Jo Stafford, Frankie Avalon, and the Shirelles, who in some cases were far more popular than those bright stars we all know today, and who more accurately represent the mainstream of their times. Written with verve and style, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll shakes up our staid notions of music history and helps us hear American popular music with new ears.

So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll

Author : Matthew Edwards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442231947
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll written by Matthew Edwards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock ‘n’ roll is a style that was born out of the great American melting pot. An outgrowth of the blues, rock 'n' roll music combines driving rhythms, powerful chords, and lyrics that communicate the human experience to audiences around the world. Although rock singing was once seen as a vulgar use of the human voice and was largely ignored by the academic community, voice teachers and singers around the world have recently taken a professional interest in learning specialized techniques for singing rock 'n' roll. So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll gives readers a comprehensive guide to rock history, voice science, vocal health, audio technology, technical approaches to singing rock, and stylistic parameters for various rock subgenres. Matthew Edwards, assistant professor of voice at Shenandoah Conservatory, provides easy-to-understand explanations of technical concepts, with tips for practical application, and suggestions for listening and further reading. So You Want to Sing Rock ‘n’ Roll includes guest-authored chapters by singing voice researchers Dr. Scott McCoy and Dr. Wendy LeBorgne, as well as audio and visual examples available from the website of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. This work is not only the ideal guide to singing professionals, but the perfect reference work for voice teachers and their students, lead and back-up singers, record producers and studio engineers. The So You Want to Sing seriesis produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.

Cleveland Rock and Roll Memories

Author : Carlo Wolff
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN 13 : 188622899X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Cleveland Rock and Roll Memories written by Carlo Wolff and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music fans who grew up with Rock and Roll in Cleveland remember a golden age. We were young, so was the music, and the sense of freedom and excitement the Rock and Roll scene delivered was electric. There were so many great clubs, like the Agora, where every big band seemed to break in the 1970s. The trendsetting radio stations, from A.M.'s WIXY to F.M.'s groundbreaking "Home of the Buzzard," WMMS. And all those memorable shows. The free Coffee Break Concerts--remember Sprinsteen just when he hit it big? The gigantic World Series of Rock. Nights on the lawn at Blossom (including local favorites the Michael Stanley Band and their record-setting sellout streak). This book collects the favorite memories of Clevelanders who made the scene: fans, musicians, DJs, reporters, club owners, and more. Includes rare photographs and other memorabilia such as concert posters, bumper stickers, pins, and ticket stubs.

Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Author : Beth Fowler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793613869
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era written by Beth Fowler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rock and roll music that dominated airwaves across the country during the 1950s and early 1960s is often described as a triumph for integration. Black and white musicians alike, including Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis, scored hit records with young audiences from different racial groups, blending sonic traditions from R&B, country, and pop. This so-called "desegregation of the charts" seemed particularly resonant since major civil rights groups were waging major battles for desegregation in public places at the same time. And yet the centering of integration, as well as the supposition that democratic rights largely based in consumerism should be available to everyone regardless of race, has resulted in very distinct responses to both music and movement among Black and white listeners who grew up during this period. Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An "Integrated Effort" traces these distinctions using archival research, musical performances, and original oral histories to determine the uncertain legacies of the civil rights movement and early rock and roll music in a supposedly post-civil rights era.

Rock 'n Roll Camp for Girls

Author : Marisa Anderson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811852227
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Rock 'n Roll Camp for Girls written by Marisa Anderson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the advice and the experience of the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, Oregon to girls everywhere.

Elvis Presley: Rock & Roll's King

Author : Stephanie Watson
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1614801754
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Elvis Presley: Rock & Roll's King written by Stephanie Watson and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative title covers the life Elvis Presley. Readers learn of his childhood in Tupelo, Mississippi and his family's relocation to Memphis, Tennessee. Presley's musical work is discussed, from his beginning singing Ole Shep at a state fair to his collaboration with Sam Phillips at Sun Studios in Memphis to his recording of That's All Right, and his introduction to Colonel Tom Parker to his signing with RCA and his first hits Heartbreak Hotel, Don't Be Cruel, and Hound Dog through his television appearances Ed Sullivan and live performances such as 68 Comeback Special and Aloha From Hawaii. Opposition to his controversial dance moves by parents, ministers and lawmakers is included, including his censorship on the Steve Allen Show and public banning of his music. Elvis's movie career is included with hits such as Love Me Tender, Viva Las Vegas, Jailhouse Rock, and Blue Hawaii as is his military service in the US Army. Presley's courtship with Priscilla Beaulieu is included, as is their marriage and the birth of their daughter Lisa Marie, their home Graceland, and their eventual divorce. Elvis's descent into drug use is included, leading to his death by heart failure at age 42. This book includes details of Elvis's life and covers the controversies surrounding his life and death. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.