Easy: A Hard Look at Soft Rock by Gray, Timothy

Easy: A Hard Look at Soft Rock (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781685970574)

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Format: Paperback
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Easy: A Hard Look at Soft Rock by Gray, Timothy

Easy: A Hard Look at Soft Rock

$35.00
Easy: A Hard Look at Soft Rock by Gray, Timothy

Easy: A Hard Look at Soft Rock

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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"'Soft Rock, ' they call it; low-key stuff with wide appeal." So stated a 1971 Chicago Tribune article on the Carpenters. Over time, Soft Rock became the butt of jokes, yet during its heyday, it fit America's changing mood, blending rebellion with conservatism. Easy explains how Soft Rock and associated genres emerged in the late 1960s and achieved broad recognition in the 1970s. Tracking hundreds of songs, Timothy Gray supplies Billboard's chart rankings to show how soft music easily crossed over from one fan base to another. Featuring acts as familiar as Fleetwood Mac and Carly Simon, and as underappreciated as the Three Degrees and J. D. Souther, Easy provides an entertaining aircheck of American culture during a transformational era.

Author: Timothy Gray
ISBN-10: 1685970575
ISBN-13: 9781685970574
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2026
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
By Timothy Gray
By Timothy Gray
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Timothy Gray is professor of English at College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He is author of Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim (Iowa, 2006), Urban Pastoral (Iowa, 2010), and It's Just the Normal Noises (Iowa, 2017). He lives in Plainfield, New Jersey.

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