Rock Music Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography

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An interdisciplinary annotated bibliography, this volume covers ten subject areas, eliminating the need to use disparate sources. It provides links among the various areas of rock music scholarship, thus imposing bibliographic control across a wide body of research that treats rock music in a serious manner. The disciplines include communication, education, ethnomusicology, history, literature and the arts, music, politics, psychology, religion and sociology. Journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and films and videos are reviewed. It should be a useful resource for scholars, students and rock music fans to examine a broad range of works. Each entry contains full bibliographic information, plus annotations that are designed to provide descriptive explanations of content. The publications reviewed are primarily interpretive and analytical rather than merely descriptive or just factual. They exclude most news publications, biographies and histories, and include works that provide serious treatment of subjects that inform, enlighten and educate. The work provides an easy-to-use format for studying this particular expression of human experience. Jeffrey N. Gatten is the editor of "The Rolling Stone Index".

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Gatten deals with popular music since the mid-1950s...a well-constructed reference work that provides solid indexing and informative anotations. Recommended for collections supporting research on contemporary music.-Choice
Librarians shoudl seize [this] stud[y] with glee. The 934 citations and commentaries are remarkably thorough and detailed. No comparable scholary resource exists....[T]he materials cited...are pertinent and comprehensive.-Popular Music and Society
"Librarians shoudl seize this study with glee. The 934 citations and commentaries are remarkably thorough and detailed. No comparable scholary resource exists....The materials cited...are pertinent and comprehensive."-Popular Music and Society
"Gatten deals with popular music since the mid-1950s...a well-constructed reference work that provides solid indexing and informative anotations. Recommended for collections supporting research on contemporary music."-Choice
"Librarians shoudl seize [this] stud[y] with glee. The 934 citations and commentaries are remarkably thorough and detailed. No comparable scholary resource exists....[T]he materials cited...are pertinent and comprehensive."-Popular Music and Society

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JEFFREY N. GATTEN is Assistant Professor in Libraries and Media Services, University Libraries, Kent State University. He holds an advanced degree in Sociology as well as in Library Science and is the compiler of The Rolling Stone Index (1993).