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Traces the development of rock music from its beginnings in 1950s popular music to its current manifestations in new jack swing and grunge
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Appropriate for students of music or of popular culture, this history simultaneously tracks developments both musical and social in the progress of rock and roll from an ostensibly short-lived musical fad for teenagers, to perhaps the dominant cultural artform of its time. Overviews of stylistic developments are interspersed with considerations of influential artists, often explicating their musical innovations in a manner unique to such histories (e.g. a demonstration of how the Rolling Stones adhered to their blues influences even while departing from them as their songwriting developed), which while technical in nature, is made easily digestible to the lay reader or beginning student. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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