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(More customer reviews)This book is super useful if you are looking for resources on the early-mid period "rock and roll" era of popular music. Although this books claims to have been published in 1995, the world portrayed is strictly pre-indie period- rock writing here is either archival work into the "great artists" of the rock canon or thematic essays (songs about food, songs about baseball) or different aspects of the rock marketplace (bootlegging.) The tone of the essays is 80s american studies style: Some technical jargon but nothing a college graduate can't understand. It's probably the perspective of this book: Locked forever in the great period of 80s AOR rock, that is both this books greatest strength and weakness, so be advised. But it's worth picking up for the early period bibliographical materials.
I think this is the kind of book that could open some interesting vistas for the perceptive reader.
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How does rock music impact culture? According to authors B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney, it is central to the definition of society and has had a great impact on shaping American culture. In Rock Music in American Popular Culture, insightful essays and book reviews explore ways popular culture items can be used to explore American values. This fascinating book is arranged alphabetically for quick and easy reference to specific topics, but the book is equally enjoyable to read straight through.The influence of rock era music is evident throughout the text, demonstrating how various topics in the popular culture field are interconnected. Students in popular culture survey courses and American studies classes will be fascinated by these unique explorations of how family businesses, games, nursery rhymes, rock and roll legends, and other musical ventures shed light on our society and how they have shaped American values over the years.
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