The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll

In Gillett's new edition of his unparalleled survey of the revolution in popular music that began with the wave of strident, emotional sound that people like Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and Chuck Berry sent sweeping across America - and that carried a whole generation in its wake, Gillett, exploring rock's social and musical origins, pinpoints influences in style and performance among individual singers, songs, and groups as he takes us on a guided tour through twenty-five years in the Rock industry, from Motown to the Monkees, payola to Woodstock. He assesses the second revolution of the sixties - the renaissance of folk rock and the reverberations felt around the world after Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones.