What Is Rock and Roll?
1st Edition
Published on 22. August 2017
112 pages
978-0-451-53382-1 (ISBN)
Description
Put on your dancing shoes and move to the music.
Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O'Connor explains what constitutes rock music, follows its history and sub-genres through famous musicians and groups, and shows how rock became so much more than just a style of music influencing fashion, language, and lifestyle.
This entry in the New York Times best-selling series contains eighty illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs.
Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O'Connor explains what constitutes rock music, follows its history and sub-genres through famous musicians and groups, and shows how rock became so much more than just a style of music influencing fashion, language, and lifestyle.
This entry in the New York Times best-selling series contains eighty illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs.
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Jim O'Connor | Who HQ
What Is Rock and Roll?
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08/2017
Grosset & Dunlap Inc.,U.S.
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Jim O'Connor | Who HQ
What Is Rock and Roll?
Book
08/2017
Grosset & Dunlap Inc.,U.S.
€8.50
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Jim O'Connor is the author of What Was Pompeii?, What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?, and Who Is Bob Dylan?
