THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ROCK MUSIC

Inheriting the people tradition on the protest tune, rock music has long been connected to political activism, in addition to alterations in social attitudes to race, sex, and drug use, and is commonly viewed being an expression of youth revolt versus adult consumerism and conformity. Concurrently, it has been commercially remarkably prosperous, br

Commentators have customarily perceived a decrease of rock and roll during the late fifties and early 1960s. By 1959, the Loss of life of Buddy Holly, the large Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a aircraft crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Very little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Ber