Book
The history of rock 'n' roll in ten songs
Publication Information
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Physical Description
[xii], 307 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
Selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 that embody rock and roll as a thing in itself--in the story each song tells, inhabits, and creates in its legacy.
Contents
- Shake some action: 1976
- Transmission: 2007/1979/2010
- In the still of the nite: 1956/1959/2010
- All I could do was cry: 2013/1960/ 2008
- Crying, waiting, hoping: 1959/1969
- Another history of rock 'n' roll
- Money (that's what I want): 1959/1963 and Money changes everything: 1978/1983/2008/2005
- This magic moment: 2007/1959
- Guitar drag: 2006/2000
- To know him is to love him: 1958/2006.