Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock 'N' Roll Resources
Editorial Reviews
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B. Lee Cooper is provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Great Falls in Montana. The Reverend Wayne S. Haney is rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Lapeer, Michigan. Together they have again captured the imagination of scholars, journalists, musicians, and students of rock music with an exciting blend of discography, bibliography, and historical-sociological musicology. Cooper and Haney also collaborate with William L. Schurk of Bowling Green State University in Ohio to coordinate issues of Library Science and Sound Recording. What is key to the unique and outstanding success of these volumes is the archival storehouse of knowledge of rock 'n roll combined with the historical legacy in choice of subject matter: answer songs; cars; cigarettes; disc jockeys; Halloween; horror films; legends; marriage; motion pictures; multiculturalism; railroads; regional music; rock journalism; sex; soul music; war; and women, among other topics. Many special books and articles are noted in reviews, largely by Cooper. Despite the magnitude of the study and reading material represented by the reviews, Cooper shows kindness and sensibility as he doesn't really "trash" any studies until page 268 where he writes of Jimmy Gutterman's volumes on the Best and Worst Rock 'n Roll of All Time as a "rock journalists hyperbole." Most important historically is the point made of racism in "race records" and the denigration of black music pre-1950's by the public at large via lack of media coverage and the then current social conditions. Even in the case of Chuck Berry, Irma Thomas, Jackie Wilson and others, those who continued to write and produce after "hits" didn't maintain the popularity of similar white artists. If there is one legacy from these volumes, it is the bibliographic and review detail that will properly place recording artists who didn't acquire major fame but produced outstanding music in proper historical perspective. For this we can thank Cooper, Haney, and Schurk, and rest assured that rock music in American popular culture is well, now and in the future.
David A. Milberg, JD, Attorney at Law and Director of Marketing, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Chicago, Illinois
"A MUST FOR EVERY MUSICOLOGIST! Painstaking research combined with incisive insights about the critical role popular music has played in mirroring and expressing the development of American culture over the past half-century. . . . An outstanding companion to its predecessor. No serious music researcher or music library can do without either volume!"
Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock 'N' Roll Resources
Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock 'N' Roll Resources,B. Lee Cooper,Wayne S. Haney,Haworth Press,1560238771,Bibliography,Discography,Genres & Styles - Rock,History & Criticism - General,History and criticism,Music,Popular Culture,Popular Culture - General,Rock Music,United States
Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock 'N' Roll Resources
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