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Sociology
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University of Toronto Press
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Sites to Check Out
ROCK'S HISTORIES
- The History of
Recorded Music 1800's | 1900's-1920's | 1930's-1950's |1960's-1980's |
1990's
- One
History of Rock site
- Another History of Rock site
- History of Rock on-line
book
- History of country
music
- Origins
of Rock'n'Roll - Rebelliousness
- Bands by genre of the: late '60s, '70s, '80s , '90s
- Essays on the History of
Rock
- A WikiYear
in Music History - 1967
- 7 Ages of Rock
(BBC Documentary)
- History
of rock music from Elvis to digital age- listen/read to BBC analysis
ROCK'S RESULTANT
- THE MUSIC: GENRES / SONGS / AESTHETICS
- Genre -
brief descriptions and icons of various rock genres
- Irony
vs. Authenticity
- Scheff, Individualism and alienation in popular love
songs
- Protest Songs - mp3s
- Get information
about a song
- den
Tandt - why rock lyrics not quite decipherable
- Popular Song Database
- Song Publisher: BMI
AUDIENCES
- Appreciators:
Issues and Dimensions
- Foster,
"On the impact of music in light of Columbine"
- S.Frith, "Popular music policy and the
articulation of regional identities"
- Birth of Rock and Roll and
the Teenager
- How
music works on our brain
- Roe-
Music and identity among European youth
Groupies: Ms. Plaster Caster
MUSIC
CREATORS - ARTISTS AND BANDS
- Group Dynamics
- Grønnerød, "Reproduction of Gender
Hierarchy...Amateur All-Girl Rock bands in Finland"
- Dasein, "Rock 'N'
Horse: Rock's Heroin Connection"
- Weinstein,"What are creative differences?"
- Earnings from CD - Indie example
- Blacks in Punk,
New Wave and Hardcore 1976-1983
- Learn the ins, the outs, etc of playing in a local rock band
- Songwriting
- Band therapy
- Roadside Jesus'
Periodic Table of Rockin'
ANTI-AUDIENCES
- Senate
Hearings about Rap and Rock Music
- Controversial albums
- Anti-Rock
Chart
- Backward masking
- "Louie, Louie"'s dirty lyrics
- Rock out Censorship's website
- What the FBI had on Lennon
- Taboo Tunes Gallery - Music
Censorship
AURAL
MEDIATORS I: RECORD INDUSTRY
- Garofalo, "From Music Publishing to MP3"
- Major
technological advances that influenced the development of rock music
- Albini,
"The Problem With Music"
- Wolff,_"Facing the Music"
- Kot on the Plight of the Music Industry in 2002
- Chess Records - indie label
- Vee-Jay - indie label
- Record companies- indies,
majors, founders
- Music companies,
with % of sales etc
- History of Record Labels
- Music Business
Articles
- Sales by genre:
rock, urban/rap, country, pop
- Music Retailers
- Popular Bands and the
Corporate Media - Theis
- How shellac records
were made
- D.Byrne, "Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists
& Megastars"
AURAL
MEDIATORS: ROCK RADIO
- Ahrens,
"Can XM Put Radio Back Together Again?"
- Rock Radio Rocks the Net- shoutcast
- Free-form
(underground/progressive) Radio
- History of Free-form
radio
- Pay for Play
(a.k.a. payola)
- History
of (Pirate) Radio Caroline
- Pirate
Radio Stations in Europe
- Moerer, "Who Killed Rock Radio?"
- Listen to Alan Freed -
1957
VERBAL
MEDIATORS: MAGAZINES, CRITICISM, GOSSIP
AND HYPE
- Bertsch, "Autobiography in Music
Criticism"(Bad Subjects, June 1999)
- Issues
of mid-1960s MojoNavigator zine
- Bangs,
"How to be a rock critic"
- Loads of interviews with the critics
- Kot on Almost Famous-Rock Critic on Critic's Portrayal of Rock Critic
- Rock
Critic on Rock Critic's Portrayal of Rock Critic: Metlzer!!
on Almost Famous
- Rock
Aesthetics
- G.Erickson,
"Speaking of Music: Explorations in the Language of Music
Criticism"
- Reviews of
Rock Books
- Rock Critics
on the Web?
- Lester
Bangs on the downfall of rock: 1980 interview
- Rock Writers Blogs
!
- Christgau's Historyof RockCriticism
- Popular Music Magazines on
Line
- Perfect Sound Forever
- PopMatters
- Echo: A Music-centered Journal
VISUAL MEDIATORS:
TV, MOVIES, MUSIC VIDEOS, VIDEO GAMES,
PHOTOGRAPHS, CONCERT POSTERS, ALBUM COVERS, T-SHIRTS, ETC.
- S.Stockbridge,"'Music video: questions of
performance, pleasure and address"
- S. Philo,
"Getting Dumber and Dumber: MTV's Global Footprint "
- History of MTV
Programming chart
- Concert posters
- Fillmore rock
posters
- Kerner,
"To Hell with Songs- Get a Great Image"
- Hochberg,
"Guitar Hero, Rock Band...."
- Mann,
"Heavenly Jukebox"
- Effect
of File-Sharing on Record Sales: Empirical Analysis
- Kelly:
New Music
- Pitchfork-
"The Social History of the MP3
- Are
downloads really killing the music industry? Or is it something else?
- Move
Over Soundscan: Music's New Chart Could Measure
Illegal Downloads, Too
LIVE
ROCK: CONCERTS AND FESTIVALS
- Ticketmaster
and other horrors
- Brief
history of concert lighting
- History of concert riders
- Woodstock
- Youtube History
- Woodstock 1969
- Rock
Festivals: Woodstock, Live Aid and more...
- Price of Rock
Concerts
SEARCHING FOR ROCK:
- Google Scholar
- DePaul's Library on-line -
- Music
Index Online
- Oxford
Music Online: Contains The Oxford Dictionary
of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, The Encyclopedia
of Popular Music, and Grove Music Online which incorporates New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature:: Indexes
music journals, chapters in books, and dissertations; with abstracts
- International
Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
- Rock's
Backpages: access to reviews,
interviews, and articles from music publications focusing on Rock and
Roll.
- Billboard Magazine
(charts, articles, etc.)
- Music Library (of
sorts)
- Good major site, a Rockmine, for rock materials
- Another good set of
rock links
- Bibliography
of (Mostly) Academic Work on Pop Music
Rock Lyrics - there are many more than these:
Lyrics - sorted by bands
Lyrics searcher
Another Lyrics site
Lyrics- another
ADDITIONAL ANALYSES OF ROCK
- Chapter & Verse: A Journal of
Popular Music and Literature Studies
- Adorno,
"Music and Language: A Fragment"
- Sanjek - on authenticity
- Friedlander,
"A Systematic approach to an understanding of rock music
- Blow,
"Death Watch" (re music industry 2009)
- Articles
and book chapters by Deena Weinstein
- “Metallica’s Kills,”
pp. 149-155 in Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself: Essays on Debut
Albums, George Plasketes (ed.), Farnham:
Ashgate, 2013
- “Rock's Guitar Gods –
Avatars of the Sixties,” Archiv fuer Musikwissenschaft
70, 2 (July 2013): 139-154
- “Alice Cooper,” The
Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.), New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013, p.79
- “Cover song,” The
Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.), New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013, pp. 449-450
- “Judas Priest,” The
Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.), New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013, p. 550
- “Motörhead,”
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.), New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013, p.595.
- “Tribute band,” The
Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.), New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013, pp. 251-252
- “Pagan Metal,” pp.
58-76 in Donna Watson and Andy Bennett (ed.), Pop Pagans:
Paganism and Popular Music, Durham: Acumen, 2013
- "Neil Peart versus
Ayn Rand,” pp. 273-285 in Rush and Philosophy: Heart and Mind United,
Jim Berti and Durrell Bowman (eds.), Chicago: Open Book Press, 2011 (with
M.A. Weinstein)
- "The Globalization
of Metal," pp. 34-59 in Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music
Around the World, Jeremy Wallach, Harris M. Berger and Paul D. Greene
(eds.), Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2011
- "Appreciating Cover
Songs: Stereophony,” pp.243-251 in George Plasketes (ed.) Play
it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music, Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010
- "The Empowering
Masculinity in British Heavy Metal," pp. 17-31 in Gerd Bayer (ed.), Heavy
Metal Music in Britain, Farnham, Surrey:
Ashgate, 2009
- "Sgt. Pepper's
Cover: Why is it Iconic?” pp. 61-75 in Jörg Helbig and Simon Warner, (eds.)The Summer of Love:
The Beatles, Art and Culture in the Sixties, Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag,
2008
- "Roger Waters:
Artist of the Absurd," pp.81-93 in Pink Floyd and Philosophy:
Careful with that Axiom, Eugene!, George A. Reisch (ed.), Chicago:
Open Court, 2007
- "Rock Protest
Songs - So Many and So Few," pp.3-16 in The Resisting Muse:
Popular Music and Social Protest, Ian Peddie (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2006
- "Relations in the
Kinks --Familiar But Not Fully Familial" Popular Music and Society
29, #2 (May 2006): 167-187
- "Rock Critics Need
Bad Music," pp. 294-310 in Christopher J. Washburne
and Maiken Derno
(eds.) Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate, New York: Routledge,
2004
- "Creativity and
Band Dynamics," pp. 187-199 in Eric Weisbard (ed.) This is Pop,
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004
- "All Singers are Dicks,"Popular Music and Society
27, #3 (October 2004): 323-334 "Celebrity Worship as Weak
Religion," Word & World 23, #3 (Summer 2003): 294-302
- "Progressive Rock
As Text: The Lyrics of Roger Waters," pp.91-109 in Kevin Holm-Hudson
(ed.) Progressive Rock Reconsidered, New York: Routledge, 2001
- ""Youth,"
pp.101-110 in Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss (eds.), Key Terms in
Popular Music and Culture, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999
- "Art vs. Commerce:
Deconstructing a (Useful) Romantic Illusion," pp.56-69 in Karen
Kelly and Evelyn McDonnell (eds.), Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky:
Music and Myth, New York: New York University Press, 1999
- "The History of
Rock's Pasts through Rock Covers," pp. 137-151 in Thomas Swiss et
al.(eds.), Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory,
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998
- "Knockin' the Rock: Popular Music Defined as a Social
Problem," pages 23-34 in Craig Calhoun and George Ritzer (eds.) Perspectives on Sociology, New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1996
- "Rock Music-
Secularization and its Cancellation," International Sociology:
Journal of the International Sociological Association 10,#2 (June
1995):185-195
- "Expendable Youth:
The Rise and Fall of Youth Culture," pages 67-85 in Jonathon Epstein
(ed.) Adolescents And Their Music: If It's Too Loud, You're Too Old,
Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing, 1994
- "Rock Bands:
Collective Creativity," pages 205-222 in Muriel G. Cantor and Cheryl
Zollars (eds.) Current Research on
Occupations and Professions, Vol.8 (Creators of Culture: Occupations and
Professions in Culture Industries) Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1993
- "The Amnesty
International Concert Tour: Transnationalism As Cultural Commodity,"
Public Culture 1, #2 (Spring 1989): 60-65
