Published by Pearson (30 July 2021) © 2022
Rock and Roll: Its History and Stylistic Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the sound and social influence of rock music. Author Scott Lipscomb introduces the elements of this enduring musical style, while emphasizing the genre's role as an influential social factor for more than 5 decades. Throughout, Lipscomb focuses on the sound of the music being discussed to assist you in developing analytical listening skills and a comprehensive musical vocabulary.
Updated to reflect recent events and recordings, the 8th Edition offers new features that better enable active listening. Musical Close-Ups delve into particular musical elements, styles and musicians. And Timelines place significant recordings, accomplishments and other aspects of an artist's or group's career into a chronological sequence of events.
1. The Roots of Rock
2. The Emergence of Rock and Roll
3. 1950s-style Rock and Roll
4. Transitional Styles of Rock in the Early 1960s
5. The Beatles
6. The British Invasion
7. Folk Music and Folk Rock
8. Soul and Motown
9. San Francisco
10. Jazz Rock
11. Art Rock
12. Mainstream Rock
13. The Continuing Fragmentation of Rock
14. (Heavy) Metal
15. Dance Music
16. Rap and Hip-Hop
17. Alternative Styles
18. An Overview and an Editorial
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