What Is Rock And Roll? (what Was?)
by Jim O'Connor /
2017 / English / PDF
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Put on your dancing shoes and move to the music.
Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O'Connor explains what constitutes rock music, follows its history and sub-genres through famous musicians and groups, and shows how rock became so much more than just a style of music influencing fashion, language, and lifestyle.
This entry in the
New York Times
best-selling series contains eighty illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs.
