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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History [6 volumes]: [Six Volumes]

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Greenwood's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCK HISTORY by Lisa Scrivani-Tidd provides specialty college-level music collections with a powerful 6-volume history covering the extent of rock music from its roots in the 1950s to modern times. This isn't just an A-Z listing, but a gathering of full articles on rock music history covering emerging new music trends and traditions, key musicians who influenced major changes, music label history, music legends and more. From the economic and political influences on the business of rock music to the key players in front of and behind the scenes, GREENWOOD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCK HISTORY is not to be missed: no other reference on the topic comes even close to the detailed articles it provides.

Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: The Grunge and Post-Grunge Years, 1991-2005, which is sixth in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History series is a very great book if you want to learn about how rock music of our current age came about. I liked this book because I want to learn about the history of rock music. It starts out talking about the beginning of the Grunge era and talks about genres such as Alternative Country and Punk. From these first building blocks of grunge music it tells how these forms of music changed through the years of the Grunge era and transformed into genres such as rap and metal.

One quality I really enjoyed about this book was that it devoted two chapters to rock festivals and the music technology that came about in the 90s. It tells how festivals and tours such as Warped Tour or Ozzfest came about. The Music Technology chapter talks about the record labels and the controversy of illegal downloading of music via the Internet.

I think that if you want to learn about how the music that we listen to today came about and who the first people to create it were, then I highly recommend that you read the whole Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History series.