Rock and roll : its history and stylistic development

Rock and roll : its history and stylistic development / Joe Stuessy, Scott Lipscomb.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stuessy, Joe
Other Authors: Lipscomb, Scott David, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009.
Edition:6th ed.
Subjects:
Rock music > History and criticism.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1: Introduction
  • Why study rock?
  • Why this book?
  • Before we begin: a liberal view of rock history
  • 2: Roots Of Rock
  • Overview: the early 1950s
  • Pop music
  • Musical close-up: Elements of music
  • Country and western
  • Musical close-up: Instrumentation in rock and roll
  • Rhythm and blues
  • Musical Close-Up: 12-bar blues
  • 3: Emergence Of Rock And Roll
  • Overview: Crossovers and covers
  • Bill Haley and the Comets
  • Elvis Presley
  • Three basic trends emerge
  • Musical close-up: Rhythm in early rock and roll
  • 4: Rock And Roll: 1950s Style
  • Overview: Five style setters of the 1950s
  • Little Richard
  • Fats Domino
  • Chuck Berry
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Buddy Holly
  • Others in the 1950s
  • Industry
  • Musical close-up: Is soft rock really rock?
  • 5: Transition: Early 1960s
  • Overview: Fragmentation of the market
  • Beginnings of the folk music trend
  • Surfing music
  • Dance craze
  • Musical close up: Musical texture and the Beach Boys
  • 6: Beatles
  • Overview: Revolution within a revolution
  • Early Beatles
  • Middle period: Experimentation
  • Later Beatles: revolution
  • Musical close-up: Technical side of the Beatles' music
  • 7: British Invasion
  • Overview: British are coming!
  • Rolling Stones
  • All the others
  • Musical close-up: Musical style of the Rolling Stones
  • 8: Folk Music And Folk Rock
  • Overview: Youth Generation of the 1960s
  • Bob Dylan
  • Byrds
  • Mamas and the Papas
  • Simon and Garfunkel
  • Other folk rockers
  • Musical close-up: Song Style of Bob Dylan
  • 9: Soul And Motown
  • Overview: Soul Music: its definition and history
  • Atlantic And Stax
  • Aretha Franklin
  • James Brown
  • Motown
  • Diana Ross and the Supremes
  • Musical close-up: Melody and the soul singer
  • 10: San Francisco
  • Overview: American Counters the British Invasion
  • Jefferson Airplane
  • Grateful Dead
  • Janis Joplin
  • Other San Francisco groups
  • Acid rock outside San Francisco
  • Musical close-up: Art of improvisation
  • 11: Jazz Rock
  • Overview: Tale of sibling rivalry and its resolution
  • Blood, Sweat, and Tears
  • Chicago
  • Other jazz rock groups
  • Musical close-up: Analysis of "Symphony for the devil/sympathy for the devil" (Blood, Sweat, and Tears)
  • 12: Art Rock
  • Overview: Rock as a "legitimate" musical vocabulary
  • Rock with orchestra
  • Rock operas and theatrical works
  • Nontheatrical art rock by unaccompanied rock groups
  • Musical close-up: Analysis of Karn Evil 9 by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
  • 13: Mainstream Rock
  • Overview: Decade of nondirection
  • Mainstream trends of the 1970s
  • Mainstream rock in the 1980s
  • Mainstream rock beyond the 1980s
  • Musical close-up: Look at rock lyrics
  • 14: Continuing Fragmenation Of Rock
  • Overview: Substyles of the 1960s evolve into the 1970s and beyond
  • Art rock evolves into progressive rock
  • Jazz rock evolves into fusion
  • Singer-songwriters of the 1970s
  • Folk influences in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Country Rock and progressive country
  • Jam band phenomenon
  • Soft rock of the 1970s
  • Soft rock continues to evolve
  • Musical close-up: Country or rock?
  • 15: Heavy Metal
  • Overview: We're not gonna take it anymore
  • British heavy metal evolves
  • American heavy metal
  • 1980s: heavy metal continues
  • Musical close-up: Meter in heavy metal and alternative rock
  • 16: Dance Music
  • Overview: Selling of rock-changes in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Return of dance music
  • Disco
  • Motown keeps dancing
  • Other music for dancing
  • Dancing through the 1990s and beyond
  • Latin invasion
  • Musical close-up: Anatomy of disco
  • 17: Rap And Hip-Hop
  • Overview: Technology, the internet, and the music industry
  • Rap's beginnings
  • Rap comes of age
  • Other rappers
  • New Jack swing
  • Musical close-up: Expressive musical performance-rhythmic delivery of rap
  • 18: Alternative Style
  • Overview: Boomers and postboomers
  • Alternative rock: The problem of definitions
  • Beginnings of alternative rock: the 1970s
  • Punk movements: back to basics
  • Alternative styles
  • Grunge
  • Indie rock
  • Punk III: Neo-punk propels rock into the new millennium
  • Prog rock
  • Musical close-up: Alternative views of alternative rock
  • 19: Overview And Editorial
  • Overview: Eight basic statements
  • Editorial
  • Where to now?
  • Discography
  • Basic recorded library of rock and roll
  • Selected discography
  • Anthologies
  • Music DVDs and rockumentaries
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index.

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