Rock & roll : an unruly history

Title
  1. Rock & roll : an unruly history / Robert Palmer.
Published by
  1. New York : Harmony Books, [1995], ©1995.
Supplementary content
  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description
Author
  1. Palmer, Robert, 1945-1997.

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Description
  1. 325 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  1. Rock & roll (Television program)
Alternative title
  1. Rock and roll
Subject
  1. Rockmusik
  2. Musiksendung
  3. Criticism, interpretation, etc
  4. Rock 'n' Roll
  5. Fernsehen
  6. Rock music > History and criticism
  7. USA
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Companion book to the PBS television series.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Discography: p. 293-299.
  2. Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-303) and index.