Full Description
Here's your backstage pass to the history of rock and roll. Thomas Larson's History of Rock & Roll connects music and the culture in which it interacted. Designed for the college non-music major, History of Rock & Roll fuses a text, website, and online music library to cover the music's story of controversy, tragedy, and self-indulgence; and also of love, peace, and the triumph of the human spirit. To meet the needs of today's instructors and students in the information world, History of Rock & Roll: * Details the most important rock styles, how they evolved, and their important artists, as well as a listing of key recordings in each. * Contains biographical information on recording artists, composers, producers, DJs, record executives, and other figures. * Includes access to an accompanying website with interactive activities, listening guides, audio/video links, test banks, and full course management software to assess comprehension. * Includes a four-month subscription to Rhapsody, an online music service with access to over 32 million songs along with written synopses on 65 important recordings.
Contents
Chapter 1Explosion Chapter 3 The Transition to Mainstream Pop Chapter 4 Soul Music Chapter 5 The Folk Influence Chapter 6 The British Invasion Chapter 7 Sixties Blues and Psychedelia Chapter 8 Changing Directions Chapter 9 The Harder Edge of Rock in the Seventies Chapter 10 Beyond Soul Chapter 11 Punk Chapter 12 The Eighties Chapter 13 The Nineties and Beyond Glossary Name Index Subject Index Chapter 1: The Roots of Rock and Roll Key Terms Key Figures Rock and Roll: The Music that Changed the World The Early Years of American Pop Music Tin Pan Alley The First Pop Singers The Swing Era The Post-War Transitional Years The Record Industry Record Sales: 1920-1954 Record Labels: The Majors and the Independents Hot 100s and Gold Records Radio The Birth of Radio and Important Early DJs Alan Freed Top 40 The Black Roots of Rock and Roll The Blues Jazz Black Gospel Rhythm and Blues Doo-Wop The White Roots of Rock and Roll Traditional Rural Music Cowboy Music, Western Swing, and Bluegrass Honky-Tonk Study Questions Chapter 2 The Rock and Roll Explosion Key Terms Key Figures Post-War America Change and Prosperity Teenagers Disconnect The First Sounds Bill Haley The First Rock and Roll Band The Indies Take Over Sun Records and Sam Phillips Elvis Presley The Cat The Discovery RCA and Colonel Parker Sgt. Presley The Presley Legacy The First Crossover Artists Rock and Roll Explodes The New Orleans Sound Antoine "Fats" Domino Little Richard Chicago R&B Chess Records Bo Diddley Chuck Berry Other Important Sun Rockabilly Artists Meanwhile, Back in Memphis ... Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis Buddy Holly The End of an Era Study Questions Chapter 3 The Transition to Mainstream Pop Key Terms Key Figures Key Albums The Changing Landscape The Death of Rock and Roll The Backlash The Teen Idols The Boy Next Door Philadelphia, Dick Clark, and American Bandstand Dance Crazes and Novelty Tunes Payola The Pay-for-Play Scandal Brill Building Pop Aldon Music Leiber and Stroller Phil Spector The Girl Groups The Wall of Sound Other Sixties Pop Burt Bacharach and Hal David Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman The Monkees Surf Surf Culture The Beach Boys Pet Sounds A Teenage Symphony to God Study Questions Chapter 4 Soul Music Key Terms Key Figures Key Albums The Origins of Soul The First Soul Record Soul and the Civil Rights Movement What Is Soul? The First Important Soul Artists Ray Charles James Brown Sam Cooke Motown Hitsville, U.S.A. The Assembly Line The Sound of Young America Holland/Dozier/Holland Important Motown Artists Smokey Robinson and the Miracles The Marvelettes Stevie Wonder Marvin Gaye The Four Tops The Temptations The Supremes Martha and the Vandellas Stax Records Back to Memphis Stax Is Born Soulsville, U.S.A. Important Stax Artists Booker T. and the MG's Otis Redding Wilson Pickett Sam and Dave Muscle Shoals and Aretha Franklin Fame Studios Aretha Franklin Study Questions Chapter 5 The Folk Influence Key Terms Key Figures The Folk Tradition The Left-Wing Folk Song Conspiracy Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger Hootenannies and Witch Hunts The Fifties Folk Revival The Calypso Fad The Queen of Folk The Greenwich Village Scene Broadside Bob Dylan Boy from the North Country Hammond's Folly The Times They Are a Changin' Newport 1965 The Basement Tapes Dylan's Later Career The Dylan Legacy Study Questions Chapter 6 The British Invasion Key Terms Key Figures Key Albums The British Pop Scene in the Fifties Post-War England English Pop Culture The Beatles The Early Years The Audition Beatlemania! Coming to America Meeting Dylan Coming of Age Sgt. Pepper's All You Need Is Love Impending Doom The End The Aftermath The Rolling Stones Image The Early Years Breaking Through Rock and Roll's Bad Boys Creative Triumph, Tragedy The Later Years The Who The Early Years From Mods to Maximum R&B Monterey Tommy Final Triumph, Tragedy Other British Invasion Bands The Mersey Beat Groups The Blues-Oriented Groups Study Questions Chapter 7 Sixties Blues and Psychedelia Key Terms Key Figures Key Albums The Sixties Counterculture Seeds of Discontent Drugs San Francisco and Acid Rock The Hippie Culture The Summer of Love Counterculture Media Acid Rock Important San Francisco Acid Rock Performers Jefferson Airplane The Grateful Dead Big Brother and the Holding Company/Janis Joplin Other Bay Area Acid Rock Bands The 1960s Los Angeles Psychedelic Scene The Strip The Doors Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention Woodstock and the Era of the Rock Music Festival British Blues and the Emergence of Hard Rock Meanwhile, Across the Pond ... Hard Rock-The Forerunner to Heavy Metal Eric Clapton/Cream Jimi Hendrix The Experience Coming to America Study Questions Chapter 8 Changing Directions Key Terms Key Figures Key Albums The 1970s The Changing Landscape Fragmentation Folk Rock The Dylan Influence The Byrds The Mamas and the Papas Buffalo Springfield Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Simon and Garfunkel Other Folk Rock Artists Singer/Songwriters The Dylan Influence (Again!) Carole King Joni Mitchell Carly Simon James Taylor Van Morrison Other Singer/Songwriters Country Rock Dylan Strikes Yet Again Gram Parsons The Band, 193 Creedence Clearwater Revival Other Country Rock Bands Southern Rock The Rural Cousin Lynyrd Skynyrd The Allman Brothers Band Other Southern Rock Bands Corporate Rock Mergers and Megahits The Eagles Fleetwood Mac Study Questions Chapter 9 The Harder Edge of Rock in the Seventies Key Terms Key Figures Key Albums The Birth of Heavy Metal The Industrial Roots The Earliest Heavy Metal Bands Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin Other Important Heavy Metal Bands from the Seventies Deep Purple Judas Priest Queen Aerosmith KISS Van Halen Other Metal Bands from the Seventies Art Rock The Origins of Art Rock Important Art Rock Bands Pink Floyd King Crimson Yes Other Important Art Rock Bands Shock Rock: Arenas, Theatrics, and Glam Alice Cooper: Godfather of Gruesome Rock Theatre Glam Rock David Bowie Other Important Glam Rockers Study Questions Chapter 10 Beyond Soul Key Terms Key Figures Key Albums Soft Soul The Changing Soul Landscape The Sound of Philadelphia Disco-The Underground Revolution Disco Conquers the Airwaves The Backlash Funk Funk Defined George Clinton Sly and the Family Stone Other Important Funk Bands Reggae What Is Reggae? Rastafari Culture Historical Background to Reggae The Dancehall Culture Bob Marley and the Wailers Other Reggae Artists Rap The Origins of Hip-Hop The Beginnings of Rap East Coast Rap CNN for Black Culture West Coast and Gangsta Rap The East Coast-West Coast Rivalry Study Questions Chapter 11 Punk Key Terms Key Figures Key Albums The Origins of Punk The Anti-Revolution Punk Culture The Earliest Punk Bands Protopunk The New York Scene The Velvet Underground CBGB The Ramones The London Scene No Future The Sex Pistols The Clash Other Important Punk Bands The Punk Aftermath New Wave Hardcore Important Hardcore Bands Study Questions Chapter 12 The Eighties Key Terms Key Figures Key Albums Technology Rules Changing Consumer Technologies MIDI and Digital Tape Recording MTV Michael, Madonna, and Prince: Post-Disco Dance Dominance The King of Pop The Material Girl The Artist Formerly Known As ... The Boss, Bono, and the Rest: Back to Basics The Boss U2 Whitney Houston Eighties Alternative The Cultural Underground Railroad Important Alternative Bands The Edgier Side of the Eighties 1980s Metal Industrial Other Eighties Goings On Study Questions Chapter 13 The Nineties and Beyond Key Terms Key Figures Key Albums The 1990s: The Triumph of Alternative Nation Nirvana Grunge and the Seattle Scene Other Nineties Alternative Rock Pop in the 1990s Soundscan Teen Pop The Boy Bands The Girls Respond Rock in the New Millennium Rap/Soul/Hip Hop Pop/Rock Country Indie/Alternative Contemporary Hard Rock/Metal The Music Industry in the Eighties and Nineties: Living Large in L.A. The Majors Rule Hubris The Majors Meet Their Match Napster The iTunes Music Store and Beyond The Future The End of the World as We Know It? Study Questions References Glossary Name Index Subject Index
