Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

A collection of poetry by Maiche Lev celebrating rock and roll and the zeitgeist of its times. Witty, informal, and oh so unpretentious, you'll find swimming tips, the kings of kool, why Johnny hates jazz, and a half-a-Zappa freak.Author: Maiche LevISBN-10: 0997575727ISBN-13: 9780997575729Publisher: Hdw...

The Beatles in Liverpool, Hamburg, London deals with the all-important early years of the group. Takes you from the birth of The Beatles, all the way through to the global phenomenon that the world's media--with no little irony--dubbed "Beatlemania". It details: The People. The...

Happy Doing What We're Doing tells the story of Brinsley Schwarz from their earliest days in amateur beat groups to their last gig at London's Marquee Club. Catapulted into the limelight by a dodgy management company looking to make a fast buck, they quickly...

The original Woodstock concert was arguably the greatest single cultural mass event in Western Civilization history. It changed everything - projecting the new youth lifestyle into the world en masse. Every town & city in North America now has its own music festival, and...

In what amounts to a history of the last twenty-five years of popular music, respected music journalist Garry Mulholland has compiled a list of the 500 greatest singles since The Sex Pistols' seminal "Anarchy in the UK". In incisive, outspoken and informative essays, Mulholland...

Jerry Ewing, Editor of 'Prog' Magazine tells the in-depth history of Progressive Rock. From the origins of the genre, through the glory years of the late 60s and 70s, to its contemporary resurgence led by, amongst others, Steven Wilson and Opeth. The book is...

The Beatles and Country Music is a new, fresh, and insightful look at the Beatles through their connection to country music. Don Cusic, author of a number of books on country music and a long-time citizen of the country music community in Nashville, has...

The Beatles and Country Music is a new, fresh, and insightful look at the Beatles through their connection to country music. Don Cusic, author of a number of books on country music and a long-time citizen of the country music community in Nashville, has...

Found: The Rolling Stones presents a series of never-before-seen snapshots of The Rolling Stones on a 1965 tour through Savannah, Georgia and Clearwater, Florida. Found in an unmarked box at a flea market in Southern California by musician and art collector Lauren White, these...

"Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf. The French had a phrase for his tropism for the seedy, the gutter, the outcasts: nostalgie de la boue. This book deserves wide attention." --Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records "A can't-put-it-down rock 'n' roll read...

Gang Wars Rock n' Roll Fine Knits Step into the world of the sharpies, Australia's answer to mods and skinheads. A world of custom-made clothing and blood n' guts street brawls. Packed with first-hand accounts from sharpie veterans and rock n' rollers like Lobby...

Backstage Passes Description In this sexy literary anthology, top genre authors explore the deep eroticism of music subcultures. Demons, vampires, punk employees, spirits, gothic fetish party revelers, and guitarists feel the rhythm where it counts. Features fiction by Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy A. Collins,...

Celebrate Elvis is a series that will leave no stone unturned. ...From rumor busters to private personal memories and experiences to emotionally gripping fan interviews. Celebrate Elvis is an ongoing collaboration with fans from around the world that are interested in preserving and broadening...

Celebrate Elvis is a series that will leave no stone unturned...From rumor busters to private personal memories and experiences to emotionally gripping fan interviews. Celebrate Elvis is an ongoing collaboration with fans from around the world that are interested in preserving and broadening the...

What really went on behind the doors of the world's top studios while recording the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and R.E.M.? How did producers deal with the legendary egos of Oasis and Paul Simon? Or the haunted perfectionism of Michael Jackson and Phil...

Some albums are so extraordinary that they influence generations of aspiring artists and even redefine entire genres. Such a description applies to Are You Experienced. In this revelatory book, now UPDATED AND EXPANDED, Sean Egan tells the story of the making of the Jimi...

This comprehensive discussion and analysis of the albums of John Lennon covers every song released by the former Beatle during his solo years. From his early experimental work with Yoko Ono, through the startling sound of the Plastic Ono Band, the chart-topping Imagine, the...

"Most of the material published in this book was first printed in Crawdaddy! magazine"--T.p. verso.Author: Paul WilliamsISBN-10: 093455840XISBN-13: 9780934558402Publisher: Entwhistle BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2000Pages: 212Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.42w x 0.76d

A complete, stand-alone method for rock guitar which builds musicianship and encourages creativity. It has the same attributes as the core method, and the two correlate. Covers rock and blues riffs, power chords, lead scales, and classic rhythm and lead guitar patterns as played...

Includes: Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You * Bring It on Home * Dancing Days * Dazed and Confused * Immigrant Song * The Lemon Song * Ramble On * Rock and Roll * Tangerine * Thank You * You Shook Me * Your Time...

Easy guitar tablature songbook (simplified guitar/vocal arrangements) for easy guitar and voice. 40 pages. Titles: Black Dog * Stairway to Heaven * Whole Lotta Love * Heartbreaker * Immigrant Song * Good Times Bad Times * Rock & Roll * D'yer MakerAuthor: Led Zeppelin,...

Titles: Something in the Way She Moves * Carolina in My Mind * Fire and Rain * Sweet Baby James * Country Road * You've Got a Friend * Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight * Walking Man * How Sweet It Is *...

Re-Discover the most influential voice of our lifetimeBob Dylan is still singing the songs which for decades have made him the most preeminent voices of our time. In this revised and much expanded edition of Stephen Scobie's landmark study of Dylan's work, the author...

Rebel Yell: An Oral History of Southern Rock presents the story of a musical genre born in the backwoods, highways, and swamps of Macon, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 and peaking in popularity during the 1970s.; This history of Southern rock is told...

More than four decades since their first album, and 35 years after the release of the iconic Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd continue to inspire and mystify rock fans around the world. Pink Floyd FAQ, by pop culture author Stuart Shea, lays...

BY THE TIME WE GOT TO WOODSTOCK ä THE GREAT ROCK 'N' ROLL REVOLUTION OF1969Author: Bruce PollockISBN-10: 0879309792ISBN-13: 9780879309794Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2009Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 8.92h x 6.04w x 0.85dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 08/15/2009 pg. 83Booklist 09/01/2009 pg. 23

Now in paperback, Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man is the first-ever biography of Led Zeppelin's legendary guitarist and producer. Never before has the story been told in such sharp detail, leaving no stone unturned, from the heady days of swinging London in the 1960s...

From the swelling synths of Depeche Mode to the dance-friendly grooves of Thomas Dolby, and from the power ballads of Journey to the New Power Generation of Prince, the music of the '80s was infused with the sound of keyboards. You'll learn: - How...

ALL MUSIC GUIDE: REQUIRED LISTENING SERIES - CLASSIC ROCKAuthor: Christopher WoodstraISBN-10: 0879309172ISBN-13: 9780879309176Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2008Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.18h x 6.31w x 0.67dReview Citation(s): Library Journal Supplements 11/15/2007 pg. 18

THE YARDBIRDS THE BAND THAT LAUNCHED ERIC CLAPTON JEFF BECK AND JIMMY PAGE SFTCOVERAuthor: Alan ClaysonISBN-10: 0879307242ISBN-13: 9780879307240Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2002Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.50w x 0.60d

This book explores the evolution of 19 intriguing artists bred by the unique 1960s music scene, and traces the musical and cultural threads that gave birth to their electrifying innovations. From folk-rockers to blue- and brown-eyed soulsters to rock satirists and beyond, acclaimed rock...

This book looks inside the artists and music that transformed the American and British soundscape of the 1980s and '90s. Scene-setting essays - some with interviews of key figures - explore alternative rock's primary influences, from Captain Beefheart to Brian Eno, and its many...

NOT FADE AWAY: A BACKSTAGE PASS TO TWENTY YEARS OF ROCK & ROLLAuthor: Ben Fong-TorresISBN-10: 0879305908ISBN-13: 9780879305901Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1999Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 11/01/1999 pg. 83Booklist 11/15/1999 pg. 590

(Guitar Method). Play great rock while you learn from one of the most revered guitar methods of all time These songs map directly to the lessons of William Leavitt's Modern Method for Guitar Vol. 1, the basic guitar text at Berklee College of Music....

Gary Herman cuts through the PR spin to expose rock and roll's long history of decadence and degradation. From the stars of the 1950s to the rappers, divas, and heavy metal icons of today, he details lurid scandals, outrageous antics, tragic deaths, and who...

The Darkness: Permission to Rock charts the unstoppable rise of the band, from their humble pub rock beginnings to their spectacular success on both sides of the Atlantic. With their flamboyant rock god image, sizzling live shows, and set of finely crafted songs presenting...

This biography of Primal Scream, by infamous rock journalist Kris Needs, is an incisive and impassioned account of one of the world's wildest bands. Primal Scream anecdotes are numerous and unparalled in their hilarious excess. This unique brand of chaos usually occurs when they're...

Author: H. V. FulpenISBN-10: 0859652742ISBN-13: 9780859652742Publisher: Plexus PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/1999Pages: 175Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 11.71h x 8.30w x 0.39d

What do AC/DC and Aphex Twin have in common? David Bowie and Butthole Surfers? The Clash and the Chemical Brothers? On the surface, very little. Yet they are all representative of the most important movement in modern music - Alternative.What makes these acts alternative?...

Early '70s Radio focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "formats," which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences. This formatting revolution took place in a period rife with heated politics, identity anxiety, large-scale disappointments and seemingly insoluble social problems. As...

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are widely acknowledged as the great pop poets of the 1960s, transforming the popular song into a medium for questionng the personal, social, and political norms of their times. They emerged at a time when the music industry was...

Posing more riddles than the average sphinx, with its decipherable answers pointing somewhere dark, Song Cycle was anything but passive. I had already witnessed hippie bands playing with their backs to the hall, so the thought of late '60s musicians being interested in their...

In the fall of 1980 Richard and Linda Thompson (of Fairport Convention fame) had recently been dumped from their record label and were on the verge of divorce. Somehow they overcame these miserable circumstances and managed to make an album considered by many to...

Neither a dry-as-dust reference volume recycling the same dull facts nor a gushy, gossipy puff piece, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982 is a bold book that examines punk as a movement that is best understood by placing it in its cultural field. It...

A brilliant new survey and intelligent exploration of progressive rock, from its origins through to contemporary artists. Nicely illustrated, it includes rare photos of artists like Kate Bush and Genesis.Author: Paul Hegarty, Martin HalliwellISBN-10: 0826423329ISBN-13: 9780826423320Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2011Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize:...

Released in the U.S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire--the album sold well, but not spectacularly and was] ultimately a nostalgic in-joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying...

When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic flash of James Brown on acid with the raw musical dynamics of the Who gone berserk. It's a unique band that can land itself on the cover of Rolling Stone a...

(Music Sales America). Matching folio to the album from this legendary artist. Over 30 songs including: Blowin' in the Wind * It Ain't Me, Babe * Maggie's Farm * It's All over Now, Baby Blue * Mr. Tambourine Man * Like a Rolling Stone...

The original architects of rock 'n' roll were black musicians including Little Richard, Etta James, and Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix electrified rock with his explosive guitar in the late 1960s. Yet by the 1980s, rock music produced by African Americans no longer seemed to...

The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a...