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132 American Music, Spring 2010 these lengthier works than poetry fail to measure up to their authors’ intentions? When jazz fiction authors have little background in music, despite their love of and desire to employ jazz in some way in their works, are their works musical enough if they base their fictions on the musical structure of a jazz piece? Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith Nicholls State University A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record. By Wayne Robins. New York: Rout- ledge, 2008. ISBN 0-415-97473-9. Paperback: 328 pages, $29.95. Cloth: 328 pages, $100.00 Wayne Robins, former journalist and music critic for publications such as Creem, Newsday, and Rolling Stone, authored a distinctive text that surveys the cultural history of rock music. Intended for use as an introduction to the music and the period of American history, the work was “aimed at students wishing to familiar- ize themselves with both the meaningful music from 1954 and the events that left the world ‘all shook up’ ever since” (vii). As expected in an introductory volume related to a subject as all-encompassing as the social history of rock ’n’ roll, the book is not intended as a comprehensive work, but instead as
American Music – University of Illinois Press
Published: Mar 18, 2010
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