Paul Fowles: Concise History Of Rock Music

Contents

• Beginnings
• Rock to Pop – 50s to 60s
• Roots and Radicals – The Folk Connection
• R & B – A Transatlantic Trade
• Liverpool and London
• Early Maturity – America from 1967
• Hendrix, his contemporaries and his legacy
• Heavy Metal Thunder
• The Excellence and Excesses of Symphonic Rock and thePsychedelic Survivors
• Hybrid Forms and the Rise of the Singer/Songwriter
• Punk Rock and the New Wave
• Adult Rock and the Post-Punk Era
• Classical Crossover – A Meeting of Great Traditions, or just “Rock for Wrinklies”?
• The 80s, the 90s and Beyond
• Coda
• Select Bibliography
• Index