Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

'I'm going to camp out on the land ... try and get my soul free'. So sang Joni Mitchell in 1970 on 'Woodstock'. But Woodstock is only the tip of the iceberg. Popular music festivals are one of the strikingly successful and enduring features...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 19 songs from one of the first MTV megastars: Fire and Ice * Heartbreaker * Hell Is for Children * Hit Me with Your Best Shot * Invincible * Love Is a Battlefield * Sex As a Weapon * Shadows of...

On the Drumhead is a collection of writings by Mike Quin, a prolific author and journalist who has covered a wide range of topics throughout his career. The book includes a selection of his best work, spanning several decades and covering a variety of...

Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, edited by Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, is an edited collection that explores how different genres of popular music are branded and marketed today. The book's core objectives are addressed over three sections. In the first part...

This comprehensive book documents the nearly half-century-long story of The Rolling Stones--the group many regard as the most eminent rock band ever. By 1964 the United States had been "invaded" by a number of British bands, led by the Beatles. The Rolling Stones were...

Covering four decades of music history, this engaging book explores a genre of pop music that has been overlooked, under-reported, and ineffectively characterized--but which nevertheless remains immensely popular. The very qualities that made glam unusual and undervalued are now being reintroduced into our culture...

The ultimate book for the ultimate fan of the ultimate band: Led Zeppelin, who continues to enthrall every new generation who encounters their music, now updated and revised. Led Zeppelin fans of all ages will covet this in-depth, lushly illustrated coffee-table book on their...

Author: Bruce PeggISBN-10: 1915858534ISBN-13: 9781915858535Publisher: Spenwood Books LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 336Format: Paperback

Author: Joe SinsISBN-13: 9798994155349Publisher: Anthem & Arrow MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2026Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Richard HoughtonISBN-10: 1915858569ISBN-13: 9781915858566Publisher: Spenwood Books LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/24/2026Pages: 192Format: Hardcover

Author: Justin M. DavisISBN-13: 9798243197540Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/09/2026Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d

David Hood's story is inseparable from the sound that emerged from Muscle Shoals and reshaped American popular music. From his early years in Sheffield Alabama to his rise as one of the most respected session bassists of his generation, this book explores the life,...

WE'VE GOT A BIGGER PROBLEM NOW is the next in the incredible series of Glen E. Friedman's books of photographs that he has released from his archives over the last five years. The subject this time is the Dead Kennedys, the infamous punk band...

Il Volo's 2026 U.S. Tour: The Legacy of Classical Crossover Music provides an insightful and in-depth exploration of one of the most influential groups in modern music. This book delves into the significance of Il Volo's 2026 U.S. tour, examining how it fits into...

Author: Chester S. TroupISBN-13: 9798261859635Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2025Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

After finding success with The Guess Who, Randy Bachman left at the height of the group's popularity in July of 1970. He cited health issues. Chad Allan, former member of the The Guess Who and joined Bachman from 1970-1972. He left in 1972 and...

We only ever get glimpses of Ian Dury; nothing is as it seems. From irascible rogue to national treasure, pop star to social commentator, cockney geezer to artist, he was a man greater than the sum of his parts. Part teddy boy, part punk,...

Existing books on the analysis of popular music focus on theory and methodology, and normally discuss parts of songs briefly as examples. The impression often given is that songs are being chosen simply to illuminate and exemplify a theoretical position. In this book the...

Simon Frith has been one of the most important figures in the emergence and subsequent development of popular music studies. From his earliest academic publication, The Sociology of Rock (1978), through to his recent work on the live music industry in the UK, in...

'Counterculture' emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and socio-political phenomena. This volume provides an essential new academic scrutiny of the concept of 'counterculture' and a critical examination...

Beneath the ever-changing and unstable political climate of Iran lies a rich youth culture centered around rock music. Reaching beyond a social, historical and political overview of music, Bronwen Robertson looks deeper and seeks to decipher how members of the underground scene invent and...

Grunge has been perceived as the music that defined 'Generation X'. Twenty years after the height of the movement there is still considerable interest in its rise and fall, and its main figures such as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. As a form of...

Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer good in the early twenty-first century. Early proponents of the musical style, such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Saxon, Uriah...

Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Next Door (1976-1980), to the spoken-word recording, The Secret Life of the Love Song (1998), to the recently acclaimed screenplay of The...

From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection of essays tells the fascinating story of the Beatles - the creation of the band, their musical influences, and their cultural significance, with emphasis on their genesis and practices as musicians, songwriters, and recording artists....

Most readers of this book will have had at most a fleeting acquaintancewith the music of some of the groups described in this book. Groupssuch as Laibach (from Slovenia), Borghesia (Slovenia), Pankow (theGDR), and Gorky Park (USSR) have concentrated on the Western marketand have...

Author: Mark BlakeISBN-13: 9798897101115Publisher: Pegasus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2026Pages: 432Format: Hardcover

Author: Eric BarrettISBN-13: 9798895151198Publisher: Diversion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2026Pages: 304Format: Hardcover

World renowned Beatles experts provide groundbreaking insights into the Fab Four's artistry, from Please Please Me to the incredible heights of Rubber Soul and Revolver. Dive into the songwriting, musicianship, and production of some of the most influential popular music ever created. Kenneth Womack...

"It wasn't meant to make sense - it was meant to be everything."In 1968, The Beatles released a record that defied every rule they had written. The White Album - stark in appearance, sprawling in scope - was both an explosion and a revelation....

This is the definitive history of the Velvet Underground, complete and more fully researched than any beforeDo What You Fear Most is the authoritative tome on the band that changed music, fashion and culture forever.Blending new archival insights and first-hand accounts, Richie Unterberger illuminates...

Christian Death is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles County, California, in 1979 by Rozz Williams. Williams was eventually joined by guitarist Rikk Agnew of the band Adolescents, with James McGearty on bass guitar and George Belanger on drums. This lineup was...

Author: Bobby PalmerISBN-10: 0316599131ISBN-13: 9780316599139Publisher: Little Brown and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2026Pages: 416Format: Hardcover

KATSEYE: Unity in Diversity: The Power of a Truly Global Group is a moving celebration of what happens when talent, culture, and dreams collide across borders.From different corners of the world, six young artists come together with unique backgrounds, languages, and stories. What begins...

From the house authors of the critically acclaimed oral history on Eddie Van Halen, Eruption, a revealing narrative biography of legendary British guitarist Jeff Beck featuring brand new interviews with the icon himself as well as his famous colleagues, collaborators, and loved ones With his...

Neil Young and Philosophy examines the music, career, and life of Neil Young from a variety of philosophical perspectives in ethics, socio-political thought, and aesthetics. It will be of great interest both to Neil Young fans and to scholars and teachers of philosophy and...

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song "Roadrunner" captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the radio on. Although the song circles Boston's beltway, its significance reaches far beyond Richman's deceptively simple declarations of love for...

As technology advances, society retains its mythical roots--a tendency evident in rock music and its enduring relationship with myth and science fiction. This study explores the mythical and fantastic themes of artists from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, including David Bowie, Pink Floyd,...

It has taken Liverpool almost half a century to come to terms with the musical, cultural and now economic legacy of the Beatles and popular music. At times the group was negatively associated with sex and drugs images surrounding rock music: deemed unacceptable by...

Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality brings together a collection of original, interdisciplinary, critical essays exploring the negotiated place of gender and sexuality in heavy metal music and its culture. Scholars debate the current state of play concerning masculinities, femininities, queerness, identity aesthetics and monstrosities...

Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the question: how has writing past and present been influenced by popular music, and vice versa? Contributions explore how various forms of writing have had a...

For more than three decades, a punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it'. This underground punk movement has evolved via several micro-traditions, each offering distinct and novel presentations of what punk is, isn't, or should be. Underlying all these punk micro-traditions...

Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance. Domestic artists' sales, airplay and concert attendance have all grown dramatically while new avenues for 'kiwi' pop exports emerged. Concurrent with these trends was a new collective sentiment that embraced and celebrated domestic...

Invisible Now describes Bob Dylan's transformative inspiration as artist and cultural figure in the 1960s. Hughes identifies Dylan's creativity with an essential imaginative dynamic, as the singer perpetually departs from a former state of inexpression in pursuit of new, as yet unknown, powers of...

For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in public poses particular challenges. Taking a broadly feminist perspective, 'Rock On': women, ageing and popular music shifts popular music studies...

British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so...

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of DIY ("do- it- yourself") music venues and events in the United States, such as warehouses, all- ages clubs, and guerrilla shows, with its primary...

In this book, the glory days of progressive rock are relived in a series of insightful essays about the key bands, songwriters and songs that made prog-rock such an innovative style.Author: Kevin Holm-HudsonISBN-10: 0815337140ISBN-13: 9780815337140Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2001Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.04w...

Rock Music in American Popular Culture III: More Rock 'n'Roll Resources explores the fascinating world of rock music and examines how this medium functions as an expression of cultural and social identity. This nostalgic guide explores the meanings and messages behind some of the...

The definition of 'heavy metal' is often a contentious issue and in this lively and accessible text Andrew Cope presents a refreshing re-evaluation of the rules that define heavy metal as a musical genre. Cope begins with an interrogation of why, during the late...