Anti-Rock: The Opposition to Rock 'n' Roll

by Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave

Book Overview

Rock is a music of rebellion against authority, and has consequently frightened and outraged people throughout its forty-year history. Anti-Rock is the first book to detail the objections of rock's detractors. Critics from parents to religious groups, industry executives to scientists, government spokesmen to eccentric crusaders, have all attacked rock vehemently with comments such as "It's the jungle strain gets 'em all worked up"; it's "one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306805022
• ISBN13: 9780306805028
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A good history

Growing up with punk rock and having constantly tried analyzing all the reasons why "rock and roll" is so 'evil' according to mainstream, this book gave me the greatest insight to how it all started. Listening to comedians like Bill Hicks who attack the subject of "anti-rockers" I still never new where rock and roll really came from except it had influences from African American roots in Blues, etc. But who WAS the first rock band. What WAS the first song classified as "rock"? This book defines all that and gives a great explanation for where the hatred came from. Maybe if you've read a thousand books on the subject like it seems the other reviewers did, then this book is redundant and too extremist, but from a perspective OF an extremist (or at least a listener of extremist music) this is a nice history lesson for ANYONE who is passionate about ANY kind of music.