1968

Music

Music was exciting, controversial, diverse.  Rock ‘n’ roll went psychedelic.  Cream disbanded, but Led Zeppelin formed.  Popular music was exploding all around the world—in Latin America and Africa as well as Europe and the US.  Rock, soul, folk, country, even classical music all hit the charts.   Music was political, controversial, and relevant.  Today, there are literally hundreds of books and articles devoted to the aesthetics, impact, and significance of sixties music.  Today you can take courses on the history of rock ‘n’ roll in the School of Music with Glenn Gass, but here you can dip into the original 1968 experience. 

Baez, Joan     

Caesar, Wendy. "Joan Baez: A Bibliography." John Edwards Memorial Foundation Quarterly 12 (1976): 147-57.

Fuss, Charles J. Joan Baez: A Bio-Bibliography. Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts: 70. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.

The Beatles    

Ehrenreich, Barbara, et al. "Beatlemania: Girls Just Want to Have Fun."  The Audience Studies Reader. vols. London, England: Routledge, 2003. 180-84.

Gould, Jonathan. Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America. 1st ed. New York: Harmony Books, 2007.

Harper, Jason, Will Wright, and Steven Kaplan. "Dear Prudence: I Have a Ticket to Ride, So Why Don't We Drive My Car and Do It on the Long and Winding Road Back in the USSR...? A Look at Images of the Road in Beatles Lyrics."  The Image of the Road in Literature, Media, and Society. vols. Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado State University-Pueblo, 2005. 138-42.

Hertsgaard, Mark. A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles. New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing, 1996.

Inglis, Ian. "'the Beatles Are Coming!': Conjecture and Conviction in the Myth of Kennedy, America, and the Beatles." Popular Music and Society 24.2 (2000): 93-108.

Kimsey, John. "How the Beatles Invented the A-Bomb." Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 18.1 (2001): 6-12.

Price, Charles Gower. "Sources of American Styles in the Music of the Beatles." American Music 15.2 (1997): 208-32.

Stark, Steven D. Meet the Beatles : A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World. New York: Harper, 2006.

Sullivan, Henry W. The Beatles with Lacan : Rock 'N' Roll as Requiem for the Modern Age. New York: P. Lang, 1995.

Womack, Kenneth, and Todd F. Davis. Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.

Cream

Wolfe, Arnold S., Chuck Miller, and Heather O'Donnell. "On the Enduring Popularity of Cream's 'Sunshine of Your Love': Sonic Synecdoche of the 'Psychedelic 60s'." Popular Music 18.2 (1999): 259-76.

Dylan, Bob     

Hishmeh, Richard E. "Marketing Genius: The Friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan." Journal of American Culture 29.4 (2006): 395-405.

Inglis, Ian. "Synergies and Reciprocities: The Dynamics of Musical and Professional Interaction between the Beatles and Bob Dylan." Popular Music and Society 20.4 (1996): 53-79.

Grateful Dead

Adams, Rebecca G., and Robert Sardiello. Deadhead Social Science: You Ain't Gonna Learn What You Don't Want to Know. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2000.

Pattacini, Melissa McCray. "Deadheads Yesterday and Today: An Audience Study." Popular Music and Society 24.1 (2000): 1-14.

Weiner, Robert G. Perspectives on the Grateful Dead Critical Writings. Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, No. 55. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Hendrix, Jimi 

Henderson, David. "Jimi Hendrix Deep within the Blues and Alive Onstage at Woodstock-25 Years after Death." African American Review 29.2 (1995): 213-16.

Schwartz, Jeff. "Writing Jimi: Rock Guitar Pedagogy as Postmodern Folkloric Practice." Popular Music 12.3 (1993): 281-88.

Waksman, Steve. "Black Sound, Black Body: Jimi Hendrix, the Electric Guitar, and the Meanings of Blackness." Popular Music and Society 23.1 (1999): 75-114.

Wells, Jeremy, et al. "Blackness 'Scuzed: Jimi Hendrix's (in)Visible Legacy in Heavy Metal."  Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century. New York, NY: New York UP, 1997. 50-63.

Whitely, Sheila. "Progressive Rock and Psychedelic Coding in the Work of Jimi Hendrix." Popular Music 9.1 (1990): 37-60.

History of rock and roll         

Assante, Ernesto. Legends of Rock: The Artists, Instruments, Myths, and History of 50 Years of Youth Music. Vercelli, Italy: White Star Publishers, 2007.

Du Noyer, Paul. The Story of Rock 'N' Roll : The Year-by-Year Illustrated Chronicle. New York: Schirmer Books, 1995.

Friedlander, Paul. Rock and Roll: A Social History. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996.

London, Herbert Ira. Closing the Circle: A Cultural History of the Rock Revolution. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1984.

Miller, Jim. Almost Grown: The Rise of Rock. London: Arrow, 2000.
Palmer, Robert. Dancing in the Street: A Rock and Roll History. London: BBC Books, 1996.

Robins, Wayne. 1968. New York: Pocket Books, 2000.
Szatmary, David P. Rockin' in Time: A Social History of Rock-and-Roll. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.

Ward, Ed, Geoffrey Stokes, and Ken Tucker. Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll. New York: Rolling Stone Press: Summit Books, 1986.

Jefferson Airplane     

Tamarkin, Jeff. Got a Revolution! : The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane.New York: Atria Books, 2005.

Joplin, Janis   

Campbell, Gavin James, et al. "'Buried Alive in the Blues': Janis Joplin and the Souls of White Folk."  How Far Is America from Here? Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature (Textxet): 47. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2005. 499-507.

Juers, Evelyn. "Janis Joplin and the Sisters of Excess." HEAT 7 (1997): 15-28.

The Monkees 

Diemert, Brian. "Jameson, Baudrillard, and the Monkees." Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 34.3-4 (2001): 179-204.

Morrison, Jim

Fowlie, Wallace. Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

Music and politics      

Altschuler, Glenn C. All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Chapple, Steve, and Reebee Garofalo. Rock 'n' Roll Is Here to Pay : The History and Politics of the Music Industry. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1977.

Frith, Simon. Sound Effects : Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock'n'roll. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.

Garofalo, Reebee. Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1992.

Greiff, Mats, and Gerd Bayer. "Rock Music, Rebellion, and the Wall: Challenges to the GDR State, 1960-1989."  Mediating Germany: Popular Culture between Tradition and Innovation. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2006. 107-25.

Grossberg, Lawrence. "The Politics of Youth Culture: Some Observations on Rock and Roll in American Culture." Social Text 8 (1983): 104-26.

Kolloge, René. The Times They Are a-Changin’: The Evolution of Rock Music and Youth Cultures. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.

Martin, Linda, and Kerry Segrave. Anti-Rock: The Opposition to Rock 'N' Roll. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1988.

Ramet, Sabrina P. Rocking the State: Rock Music and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994.

Treece, David. "Guns and Roses: Bossa Nova and Brazil's Music of Popular Protest, 1958-68." Popular Music 16.1 (1997): 1-29.

Presley, Elvis 

Bertrand, Michael T. Race, Rock, and Elvis. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 2000.

Camp, Charles. "Bad Blood: The Afterlife of Elvis Presley." Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 10.1 (1982): 71-76.

Carlson, Thomas C. "Ad Hoc Rock: Elvis and the Aesthetics of Postmodernism." Studies in Popular Culture 16.2 (1994): 39-50.

Chadwick, Vernon. In Search of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997.

Doss, Erika. Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image. Lawrence, KS: UP of Kansas, 1999.

Duffett, Mark. "Transcending Audience Generalizations: Consumerism Reconsidered in the Case of Elvis Presley Fans." Popular Music and Society 24.2 (2000): 75-91.

Kiely, Robert, et al. "From Monticello to Graceland: Jefferson and Elvis as American Icons."  One Nation under God? Religion and American Culture. vols. Culturework (Culturew). New York, NY: Routledge, 1999. 208-20.

Lott, Eric, Harry Stecopoulos, and Michael Uebel. "All the King's Men: Elvis Impersonators and White Working-Class Masculinity."  Race and the Subject of Masculinities. vols. New Americanists. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1997. 192-227.

Marling, Karal Ann. Graceland: Going Home with Elvis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1996.

Whisler, John A. Elvis Presley Reference Guide and Discography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1981.

 Reference Works       

Crampton, Luke, Dafydd Rees, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Rock & Roll Year by Year. 1st ed. London; New York: DK Pub., 2003.

Gatten, Jeffrey N. Rock Music Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.
Hoffmann, Frank. The Literature of Rock, 1954-1978. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1981.

Larkin, Colin, and Nic Oliver. The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock. New York: Billboard Books, 2003.

Leyser, Brady J., and Pol Gosset. Rock Stars/Pop Stars: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1955-1994. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.

Scrivani-Tidd, Lisa M., et al. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006.

Talevski, Nick. The Unofficial Encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Whisler, John A. Elvis Presley Reference Guide and Discography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1981.

Rock and roll music   

Bellman, Jonathan. "Indian Resonances in the British Invasion, 1965-1968."  The Exotic in Western Music. Boston, MA: Northeastern UP, 1998. 292-306.

Hicks, Michael. Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1999.

Leyser, Brady J., and Pol Gosset. Rock Stars/Pop Stars: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1955-1994. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.

Lydon, Michael. Flashbacks : Eyewitness Accounts of the Rock Revolution, 1964-1974. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Molon, Dominic, et al. Sympathy for the Devil : Art and Rock and Roll since 1967. New Haven, Conn.; London: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in association with Yale University Press, 2007.

Moore, Allan. "The So-Called 'Flattened Seventh' in Rock." Popular Music 14.2 (1995): 185-201.

 Rock music Great Britain      

Harris, John. Britpop! : Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock. 1st Da Capo Press ed. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2004.

 Rock music Soviet Union       

Ryback, Timothy W. Rock around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Troitsky, A. Back in the USSR The True Story of Rock in Russia. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1988.

Zaitsev, Igor, Mark Buser, and Dmitry Linnik. Soviet Rock : 25 Years in the Underground + 5 Years of Freedom. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1990.

Rock music United States

Christgau, Robert. Any Old Way You Choose It; Rock and Other Pop Music, 1967-1973. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1973.

Duncan, Robert. The Noise: Notes from a Rock 'n' Roll Era. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1984.

Eisen, Jonathan. The Age of Rock, Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution; a Reader. New York: Random House, 1969.

Marcus, Greil. Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music. 4th rev. ed. New York, N.Y.: Plume, 1997.

Pollock, Bruce. Hipper Than Our Kids: A Rock & Roll Journal of the Baby Boom Generation. New York: Schirmer Books, 1993.

Rock musicals

Wollman, Elizabeth L., Galt MacDermot, and Stephen Trask. The Theater Will Rock : A History of the Rock Musical : From Hair to Hedwig. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.

Rock musicians Clothing       

Jones, Mablen. Getting It On: The Clothing of Rock 'N' Roll. New York: Abbeville, 1987.

The Rolling Stones     

Penner, Harold, and Michael J. Gilmour. "The Nature of His Game: A Textual Analysis of 'Sympathy for the Devil'."  Call Me the Seeker: Listening to Religion in Popular Music. New York, NY: Continuum, 2005. 115-28.

 Velvet Underground

Heylin, Clinton. All Yesterdays' Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1971. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2005.