ISBN: 0394705351
Godina izdanja: 1969
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Muzika
Autor: Strani

Jonathan Eisen (editor) - Age of Rock: Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution
Vintage Books 1969
388 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro, potpis na predlistu.

Essays survey the political and social comment implicit in rock music, and profile rock composers and performers

CONTENTS
Jonathan Eisen: Introduction
Nat Hentoff: Something`s Happening and You Don`t Know What It Is, Do You, Mr. Jones?
H. F. Mooney Popular Music since the 1920s: The Significance of Shifting Taste
Burton H. Wolfe: The New Music and the New Scene
Stanley Booth: A Hound Dog. To the Manor Born
Frank Kofsky: The Scene
Ralph J. Gleason: Like a Rolling Stone
Tom Nolan: Groupies: A Story of Our Times
Ian Birchall: The Decline and Fall of British Rhythm and Blues
Fred Newman: `I Used To Think I Was Really Ugly
Alan Beckett/Richard Merton: Stones/Comment
Michael Parsons: Rolling Stones
Michael Wood: Arts in Society: John Lennon`s School Days
Joan Peyser: The Music of Sound or, The Beatles and the Beatless
Alan Aldridge: Beatles Not All That Turned On
Murray Kempton: The Beatles
Ned Rorem: The Music of The Beatles
Richard Poirier: Learning from the Beatles
Wilfrid Mellers: New Music in a New World
Alfred G. Aronowitz: A Family Album
Richard Fariña: Baez and Dylan: A Generation Singing Out
Lawrence Goldman: Bobby Dylan-Folk-Rock Hero
Jon Landau: John Wesley Harding
Robert Christgau: Rock Lyrics Are Poetry (Maybe)
Richard Meltzer: The Aesthetics of Rock
Frank Kofsky: Frank Zappa Interview
Doon Arbus: In Person: The Mothers of Invention
Sally Kempton: Zappa and the Mothers: Ugly Can Be Beautiful
Michael Thomas: Rock-and-Roll Woman
Doon Arbus: James Brown Is Out of Sight
Jon Landau: A Whiter Shade of Black
Paul Williams: The Way We Are Today
Gene Lees: Nashville: The Sounds and the Symbols
James Payne: Hank Ballard Revisited
Tom Wolfe: The First Tycoon of Teen
Tom Nolan: Underground Radio
Sally Kempton: A Non-Interview with a Pop Pro
Harry Shearer: Captain Pimple Cream`s Fiendish Plot
Joan Didion: Waiting for Morrison

The Age Of Rock is a collection of the best writing on the rock culture and business. The most prestigious names in the rock field are discussed by scholars. hipsters, musicians, journalists. and themselves.
These essays treat the music with seriousness. They delve into the business and commercial side of rock: `under-ground radio`: the `groupies`-girls who follow rock groups around for status and sex: San Francisco: the beginning of the rock musical insight (blues cum Country Western) that exploded in political and social recolt and devised a new form for this generation to tell it like it seems to them.


Nonfiction, Music, 0394705351