|
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop
|
Buy Now
Rock and Roll is Here to Stay - An Anthology (Hardcover, New)
Loot Price: R1,451
Discovery Miles 14 510
You Save: R205
(12%)
|
|
|
Rock and Roll is Here to Stay - An Anthology (Hardcover, New)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
An electrifying collection of the finest, most entertaining, and
illuminating writing on and from the rock and roll scene--from its
earliest days to the present, from the brightest moments of the
biggest stars to obscure but compellingly significant treasures.
The crazy, exhilarating, endlessly creative world of rock and roll
has fascinated us--and some of our best writers--since the earliest
days of the genre. William McKeen has assembled in this book the
writing of those who played the music and pushed it to new limits,
as well as those who were on the scene to witness and celebrate its
magic. The story of rock and roll music and the rock and roll life
lifts from these pages with marvelous immediacy, in selections
ranging from Bruce Springsteen on his experience of backing up
Chuck Berry, to Joan Didion sitting in on a Doors recording
session, to Henry Rollins on Madonna, to Roddy Doyle's The
Commitments. Tom Wolfe, Patti Smith, Don DeLillo, John Lennon,
Frank Zappa, Nick Hornby, and many others contribute to this
portrait of the music and its culture from its ancestors in the
blues to its latest variants beyond grunge and rap. The book is
organized into sections that create provocative and eye-opening
juxtapositions, from "Superstardom" to "Weirdness," from "Present
at the Creation" to "Soul." A section on rock critics shows how
these writers matched the music with their own sharp rhythm, while
"Tributes" rounds off the volume by remembering in their glory some
of the greats who are making noise in the hereafter.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
