ROCK TIL YOU DROP CL

by STRAUSBAUGH,JOHN

• ISBN13: 9781859846292
• ISBN10: 1859846297
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

In the 1960s and early 70s rock and rebellion went arm in arm. This was the generation that angrily refused to grow up, to settle down. The Who captured the zeitgeist with precision: 'I hope I die before I get old.'

Author Biography

John Strausbaugh is the editor of the Manhattan weekly New York Press. His previous books include E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith and Alone With the President. He was in numerous rock bands in his youth, but knew when to quit

Table of Contents

Boom Boom Boom Boomer: Colostomy Rock, and What It Says about My Generation	p. 1
Steel Wheelchairs: The Historical Reenactment of the Once-Great Rolling Stones	p. 33
Up Against the Wall, Mother Hubbard: Rock and the Gestural Revolution	p. 81
Rock Pravda: How Rolling Stone Tumed Thirty, and Why You Didn't Care	p. 133
The Hall of Lame: Why There Shouldn't Be Rock Museums	p. 173
Punk: Not the Death of Rock, Just the Dedine of Western Civ	p. 191
Post-Rock: Why Doughty Doesn't Think Any of This Is Important	p. 213
Rock in New York: The Sounds and the Stories	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 257
Permissions	p. 261
Acknowledgments	p. 263
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