The Sound of the City
eBook - ePub

The Sound of the City

The Rise of Rock and Roll

  1. 550 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Sound of the City

The Rise of Rock and Roll

About this book

Charlie Gillett, a British journalist, loves the music, and his passion is evident throughout The Sound of the City. Yet the greatest strength of the book is the way Gillett tracks the resistance of the music industry to early rock-and-roll, which was followed (needless to say) by a frantic rush to engulf and devour it.
When first published The Sound of the City was hailed as having 'never been bettered as the definitive history of rock' ( Guardian ). Now the classic history of rock and roll, has been revised and updated with over 75 historic archive photos. The text has been substantially revised to include newly discovered information and it is now 'the one essential work about the history of rock n' roll' (Jon Landau in Rolling Stone ).

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. CONTENTS
  5. INTRODUCTION: DANCING IN THE STREET
  6. PART I: THEY GOT WHAT THEY WANTED: ROCK ’n’ ROLL, 1954–61
  7. 1. The Sound Begins
  8. 2. Five Styles Of Rock ’n’ Roll
  9. 3. How To Make A Rock ’n’ Roll Record
  10. 4. The Majors
  11. 5. The Independents
  12. PART II: INTO THE CITIES RHYTHM AND BLUES, 1945–56
  13. 6. The Blues-Based Styles: Dancehall Blues, Club Blues, Bar Blues
  14. 7. After The Blues Gospel And The Group Sounds
  15. PART III: CITY PRODUCTION LINE-COUNTRY SOUL, 1958–71
  16. 8. Back Home
  17. 9. Do That Again, This Way: Rhythm and Blues, Uptown
  18. 10. Are We Together? Soul Music
  19. PART IV: ECHOES FROM THE CITY CENTRES, 1962–71
  20. 11. Transatlantic Echoes
  21. 12. Coast To Coast
  22. 13. Electric White Orchestras: British Rock Progresses
  23. 14. Goodnight, America
  24. NOTES
  25. PLAY LIST
  26. RECOMMENDED COMPILATION RECORDS
  27. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  28. AFTERWORD TO THE THIRD EDITION
  29. COPYRIGHT OWNERS AND SOURCES OF PHOTOGRAPHS
  30. PHOTO CREDITS
  31. INDEX OF NAMES
  32. INDEX OF SONGS
  33. INDEX OF ALBUMS
  34. INDEX OF FILMS
  35. INDEX OF LABEL ROSTERS
  36. PLATES
  37. BY THE SAME AUTHOR
  38. COPYRIGHT