The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: Folk, pop, mods, and rockers, 1960-1966

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: Folk, pop, mods, and rockers, 1960-1966
Author: Rhonda Markowitz
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780313329609

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Rock music has played an enormous role in American culture ever since its beginnings in the 1950s. Providing an understanding of rock music, this six volume set shows the many ways it has shaped, and been shaped by, American culture. It provides chapters on important musicians, writers, and more within these exciting periods in rock music history.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History
Author: Bob Gulla
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780313329814

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Rock music has played an enormous role in American culture ever since its beginnings in the 1950s. Providing an understanding of rock music, this six volume set shows the many ways it has shaped, and been shaped by, American culture. It provides chapters on important musicians, writers, and more within these exciting periods in rock music history.

Story behind the Protest Song

Story behind the Protest Song
Author: Hardeep Phull
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2008-10-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1567206859

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Protest songs are united by the fact they all have something to say, something to dispute, or something to rile against, whether it be political, social, or personal. Story Behind the Protest Song features 50 of the most influential musical protests and statements recorded to date, providing pop-culture viewpoints on some of the most tumultuous times in modern history. Among the featured: songs about the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the most recent upheaval over policy in the Middle East, as well as teenage rebellion, animal rights, criticisms of mass media, and even protest songs that lambaste other protest songs. This indispensable guide tackles it all: the behind-the-scenes stories of the most influential protest songs in American popular culture, examining the subjects they address, the legacy they left, and the fabric of the songs themselves. Chronically arranged entries cover nearly 70 years of music and offer an expansive range of genres, including rock, punk, pop, soul, hip-hop, country, folk, indie, heavy metal, and more. Each entry discusses the songwriter(s); the inspiration behind the song; and the social, cultural, and political context in which the song was released. Following a detailed musical and lyrical analysis, the entries explain the songs' impact and relevance today. Among the featured: • The Unknown Soldier (The Doors) • Masters of War (Bob Dylan) • Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud (James Brown) • Get Up, Stand Up (The Wailers) • Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) • Their Law (Prodigy) • American Idiot (Green Day) • Sweet Home Alabama (Lynrd Skynrd) • Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen) • Southern Man (Neil Young) Entries are accompanied by further readings and a select discographies as well as a comprehensive resource guide at the end of the book. A must-read for students of music, history, and politics, this volume offers a unique reflection on the most significant and moving protest songs in American history.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: From arenas to the underground, 1974-1980

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: From arenas to the underground, 1974-1980
Author: Chris Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2006
Genre: Rock music
ISBN: 9780313336119

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Examines the divergent paths rock music took between 1974 and 1980, discussing arena rock, West coast soft rock, ambient music, punk, and new wave, and provides a chronology, an A-Z guide to the period, and lists of top-selling recordings, important albums, and further resources, including print works, Web sites, films, and museum collections.

The Devil’s Music

The Devil’s Music
Author: Randall J. Stephens
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2018-03-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0674919726

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When rock ’n’ roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was “ever working in the world for evil.” Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar industry. The Devil’s Music tells the story of this transformation. Rock’s origins lie in part with the energetic Southern Pentecostal churches where Elvis, Little Richard, James Brown, and other pioneers of the genre worshipped as children. Randall J. Stephens shows that the music, styles, and ideas of tongue-speaking churches powerfully influenced these early performers. As rock ’n’ roll’s popularity grew, white preachers tried to distance their flock from this “blasphemous jungle music,” with little success. By the 1960s, Christian leaders feared the Beatles really were more popular than Jesus, as John Lennon claimed. Stephens argues that in the early days of rock ’n’ roll, faith served as a vehicle for whites’ racial fears. A decade later, evangelical Christians were at odds with the counterculture and the antiwar movement. By associating the music of blacks and hippies with godlessness, believers used their faith to justify racism and conservative politics. But in a reversal of strategy in the early 1970s, the same evangelicals embraced Christian rock as a way to express Jesus’s message within their own religious community and project it into a secular world. In Stephens’s compelling narrative, the result was a powerful fusion of conservatism and popular culture whose effects are still felt today.

The Rise of Album Rock, 1967-1973

The Rise of Album Rock, 1967-1973
Author: Chris Smith
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780313329661

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Chronicles such developments in rock music as psychedelic rock, progressive rock, Southern rock, and early heavy metal between 1967 and 1973, and provides a chronology, an A-Z guide to the period, and lists of top-selling recordings, important albums, and further resources, including print works, Web sites, films, and museum collections.

Musicians & Composers of the 20th Century

Musicians & Composers of the 20th Century
Author: Alfred William Cramer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain...these are the people who helped shape the history of music. Their stories and others are told in Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. This five volume set offers biographical and critical essays on over 600 musicians in just about every genre imaginable, from Accordion Players to Musical Theater Composers to World Music, and everything in between.

Library Journal

Library Journal
Author: Melvil Dewey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2006
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.