Rock And Roll

A Social History

Paul Friedlander

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780367096847
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429974335
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music History & Criticism

Now updated with two new chapters and an extraordinary collection of photographs, this second edition of Paul Friedlander's Rock and Roll: A Social History is a smash hit. The social force of rock and roll music leaps off the page as Paul Friedlander provides impressive insights based on hits from Johnny B. Goode to Smells Like Teen Spirit and beyond. In this musical journey, Friedlander offers the melodious strains and hard-edged riffs of Elvis, the Beatles, The Who, Dylan, Clapton, Hendrix, Motown, the San Francisco Beat, Punk, New Wave, rap, metal, 90s grunge, plus file sharing, and much more. The book is written in a refreshing, captivating style that pulls the reader in, offering no less than a complete social and cultural history of rock and roll for students and general audiences alike. Friedlander writes, 'This book chronicles the first forty years of rock/pop music history. Picture the various musical styles as locations on a giant unfolding road map. As you open the map, you travel from place to place, stopping at each chapter to sample the artistry. Don't forget to dress your imagination appropriately for this trip, because each genre is affected by the societal topography and climate that surround it. Enjoy your trip. We promise it will be a good one!'

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• 1 I Can See Clearly Now: Twenty Rock and Roll Lenses
• 2 The Roots of Rock and Roll: I Went Down to the Crossroads
• 3 Classic Rockers—the First Generation: Just Give Me Some of That Rock and Roll Music
• 4 Classic Rockers—the Second Generation: There’s Good Rockin’ Tonight
• 5 Doo-Wop: Street Corner Serenade
• 6 The Early Sixties: The Calm Before the Storm
• 7 The Beatles: Because the World Is Round It Turns Me On
• 8 The Rolling Stones: It’s Only Rock and Roll but I Like It
• 9 The Who: People Try to Put Us Down
• 10 Bob Dylan: Somethin’ Is Happening, but You Don’t Know What It Is
• 11 Folk-Rock: So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star
• 12 Soul Music: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
• 13 Motown: Hitsville, U.S.A.
• 14 The San Francisco Sound: People in Motion
• 15 The Guitar Kings: And I Gave Her the Gun
• 16 The Seventies: Dazed and Confused
• 17 Punk Rock: Buzzsaw Bravado and Shock Politics
• 18 The Eighties: The Revolution Will Be Televised
• 19 Notions from Underground: The Alternative Rock and Rap Uprisings
• 20 We Should Be Together: Festival Frenzies, Electronic Dance Music Culture, Heavy Metal Metamorphoses, and the Deregulation of Radio and File Sharing
• Appendix A: Some Artists Who Fell Through the Cracks
• Appendix B: The Rock Window—One Way to Listen and Understand
• Notes
• Discography
• Selected Bibliography
• Index