I want to get it so bad and I can name almost every person on the cover. Top 3: Don't know (One to the left) Elvis Presley (middle) I don't know if it's blondie or Madonna ( One to the Right) Middle 3: Janis Joplin (One to the left) Aretha Franklin (Middle) I think John Lennon from the Beatles ( One to the right) Bottom 3: A member of the beach boys ( Left) A member of the rolling stones (middle) Jimi Hendrix (Right)
What Is Rock and Roll? (What Was?)
By Jim O'Connor, Who HQ
Book 29 of 65 in the
What Was Book Series
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.
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.
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
ISBN-13: 9780451533814
ISBN-10: 045153381X
Published on 8/22/2017
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 112