Rockin' in time : a social history of rock-and-roll / David P. Szatmary.

• The blues, rock-and-roll, and racism -- Elvis and rockabilly -- The teen market : from Bandstand to girl groups -- Surfboards and hot rods : California, here we come -- Bob Dylan and the new frontier -- The British invasion of America : the Beatles -- The British blues invasion and garage rock -- Motown : the sound of Integration -- Acid rock -- Fire from the streets -- Guitar heroes and heavy hetal gods -- Back to the country -- Escaping into the Seventies -- The era of excess -- Punk rock -- The American hardcore -- I want my MTV -- The promise of rock-and-roll -- Country boomers -- The rave revolution and Britpop -- The generation X blues -- Post-grunge party -- The hip-hop nation -- Metal gumbo : rockin' in the twenty-first century -- Age of the Internet -- Life during wartime -- Country counter-revolution.

• Brief, authoritative, and current, Dave Szatmary's Rockin' in Time: A Social History of Rock-and-Roll, 8th edition, weaves the major icons of rock-and-roll into a larger social/historical fabric. Rather than an exhaustive catalog of artists in rock history or a guide to learning musical notation, the book places rock-and-roll in the context of the social issues that surrounded and shaped it. Topics include the influence on rock music of such trends as the civil rights movement, political and economic shifts, demographical change and the baby boom, the development of the music business, and technology advances [Publisher description]

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Rock music  -- United States -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Rock music  -- Social aspects -- United States. (LCSH)

Rock  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

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ML3534 (LCC)

781.660973 (DDC)