The sound of the city: The rise of rock and roll

Arts & Photography

Gillett, Charlie

Music

Souvenir Press

This comprehensive study of the rise of rock and roll from 1954 to 1971 has now been expanded with close to 100 illustrations as well as a new introduction, recommended listening section, and bibliography.

The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll

Souvenir Pr Ltd

Making tracks: Atlantic Records and the growth of a multi-billion-dollar industry

Making Tracks: Atlantic Records and the Growth of a Multi-Billion-Dollar Industry

The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll

Da Capo Press

A history of rock and roll discusses the major groups and performers and offers a look at rhythm and blues, soul music, and the British influence

SOUND OF THE CITY

Pantheon

W.H.Allen

Panther

Making Tracks: Atlantic Records and the Growth of a Multi-Billion-Dollar Industry.

E.P.Dutton

Histoire du rock'n'roll - tome 2: L'apogée

ALBIN MICHEL

Snare drum backbeat plus electric guitar: the simple formula that launched the rock star, and contemporary teen culture along with it. Today, rock 'n' roll seems to define postwar American culture, especially in its impact abroad. Though its inception is often imagined as sudden and seismic, it was, of course, a gradual and complex transition from boogie-woogie to the stardom of Elvis Presley and Bill Haley. A thorough survey of rock 'n' roll's bloodline would even reach back as far as 1939, a time when the electric guitar's role was mostly played by piano or saxophone. Rock 'n' Roll 39-59 does this, with the assistance of some of the genre's finest photographers. Bruce Davidson, Wayne Miller, Robert W. Kelley, Esther Bubley, Eve Arnold and Ernest C. Withers are all here, amid a wealth of visual props, including priceless period posters, records, rare souvenirs, photographs and film stills, and indices of the movement's key venues, events, artists, producers and people. This book describes a lively mess of genres, from boogie-woogie to blues, gospel, big band jazz, country and, most of all, rhythm and blues--interbreeding against a backdrop of colossal social change, and culminating in the rock 'n' roll explosion of the mid-1950s.

Rock 'n' Roll 39-59

Halberstam, David

Guralnick, Peter

MARCUS, Greil

Steidl & Partners

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