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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.66
EAN num: 9780415970334
ISBN number: 0415970334
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 208
Printing Date: December 16, 2005
Publishing house: Routledge
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Rock and roll's death has been forecast nearly since its birth; the country song 'The Death of Rock and Roll' appeared in September 1956, showing that the music had already outraged a more conservative listening audience. Is Rock Dead? sets out to explore the varied and sometimes conflicting ways in which the death of rock has been discussed both within the discourse of popular music and American culture. If rock is dead, when did it die? Who killed it? Why do rock journalists lament its passing? Has its academic acceptance stabbed it in the back or resuscitated an otherwise lifeless corpse? Why is rock music the music that conservatives love to hate? On the other side of the coin, how have rock's biggest fans helped nail shut the coffin? Does rock feed on its own death-and-rebirth? Finally, what signs of life are there showing that rock in fact is surviving?
Is Rock Dead? will appeal to all those who take seriously the notion that rock is a serious musical form. It will appeal to students of popular music and culture, and all those who have ever spun a 45, cranked up the radio, or strummed an air guitar.
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This book is wordy, confusing, and boring without any pictures. He writes 158 pages about the death of Rock music, yet never really gives a definition of Rock & roll. According to the book, Rock was born around 1956 with Elvis Presley, peaked around 1966 with the Beatles, and died in 1976 with the Sex Pistols and/or 1977 with Elvis Presley's death. He concludes with the thought that maybe Rock music is not dead, but evolving with Rap/Hip Hop, the current heir to Rock's throne. According to my teenage daughter, Rock died at the end of the eighties...1989. This author seems to think Rock died when Kurt Cobain killed himself in 1994. I've never considered Grunge authentic Rock & roll, more of an "Alternative" to Rock & roll.
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"Is Rock Dead?" is an A-list rock book. The topic is the play of rock & roll's everlasting life against its constantly touted death. The content is by turns amusing, incisive, and revelatory. Pertinent allusions are used to highlight details, all kinds of great unusual info surfaces, and Dettmar rather objectively lays waste to the work of so-called rock scholars harboring narcissistic agendas. Dettmar's analysis of Kurt Cobain's suicide interpolated with Neil Young and Michael Stipe's work in relation to it is especially moving.
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