Rock 'Til You Drop The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia

by Strausbaugh, John

• ISBN13: 9781859844861
• ISBN10: 1859844863
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

As the Rolling Stones and The Who drag themselves through yet more world tours and middle-aged punk rockers plot nostalgic reunions, this lively and controversial book charts the decline of a generation that started out as self-anointed world-changers and ended up as a 'colostomy rock' parody.

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

Preface to the Paperback Edition	vii
Boom Boom Boom Boomer
Colostomy Rock, and What It Says about My Generation	1	(32)
Steel Wheelchairs
The Historical Reenactment of the Once-Great Rolling Stones	33	(48)
Up Against the Wall, Mother Hubbard
Rock and the Gestural Revolution	81	(52)
Rock Pravda
How Rolling Stone Tumed Thirty, and Why You Didn't Care	133	(40)
The Hall of Lame
Why There Shouldn't Be Rock Museums	173	(18)
Punk
Not the Death of Rock, Just the Decline of Western Civ	191	(22)
Post-Rock
Why Doughty Doesn't Think Any of This Is Important	213	(30)
Appendix Rock in New York: The Sounds and the Stories	243	(14)
Bibliography	257	(4)
Permissions	261	(2)
Acknowledgments	263