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Rockabilly
Cooper, B. Lee; Haney, Wayne S.
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Description for Rockabilly
Hardback. Extensive lists of printed resources on 35 years of rockabilly performers, ranging from Charlie Feathers, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley to Shakin' Stevens, The Cramps, and The Stray Cats. Includes more than 220 rockabilly singers and instrumentalists. Num Pages: 372 pages, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: AVGP; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 628.
This book features extensive lists of printed resources on 35 years of rockabilly performers, ranging from Charlie Feathers, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley to Shakin' Stevens, The Cramps, Robert Gordon, and The Stray Cats. The bibliographic survey includes biographies, historical studies, concert and record reviews, discographies, and articles from magazines such as Guitar Player, Goldmine, Now Dig This, Record Collector, and New Kommotion. More than 220 rockabilly singers and instrumentalists are included. With author index and bibliography. Should be of value to audio librarians, popular culture researchers, rock music enthusiasts, record collectors, and teachers of music, sociology, and American studies.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810823860
SKU
V9780810823860
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Cooper, B. Lee; Haney, Wayne S.
B.Lee Cooper is Academic Vice President and Professor of History at Olivet College, MI. His previous publications include Images of American Society in Popular Music (1982), The Popular Music Handbook (1984), The Literature of Rock II (with Frank Hoffmann, Scarecrow, 1986), and A Resource Guide to Themes in Contemporary American Song Lyrics, 1950-1985 (1986). Wayne S. Haney, BME, is a postulant for the priesthood with the Diocese of Western Michigan (Episcopal) and is attending the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. Formerly Associate Director of the Academic Resource Center at Olivet College, Mr. Haney is an organist and computer specialist who has co-authored Response Recordings: An Answer Song Discography, 1950-1990 (Scarecrow, 1990) with B. Lee Cooper.
Reviews for Rockabilly
The team of Cooper and Haney has once again come through with a useful book to help guide us through the burgeoning mass of popular-music literature.
Sonneck Society Bulletin
...a considerable achievement and a pioneer in the study of rockabilly...
Theatre Of Rock
...worth buying...anyone interested in Charlie Feathers to Stray Cats will love this book.
Coast Book Review Service
...valuable due to the meager bibliographic coverage of rockabilly at present.
American Reference Books Annual
Sonneck Society Bulletin
...a considerable achievement and a pioneer in the study of rockabilly...
Theatre Of Rock
...worth buying...anyone interested in Charlie Feathers to Stray Cats will love this book.
Coast Book Review Service
...valuable due to the meager bibliographic coverage of rockabilly at present.
American Reference Books Annual