What Is Rock And Roll? [EPUB]

E-Book Overview

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 theNew York Timesbest-selling series contains eighty illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs.

E-Book Information

  • Series: What was...

  • Year: 2,017

  • Edition: Paperback

  • Pages: 112

  • Language: English

  • Topic: 106

  • Library: mobilism

  • Issue: TD

  • Identifier: 045153381X, 9780451533814

  • Org File Size: 157,957,081

  • Extension: epub

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