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.
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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. (Arba )
...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. (Arba )
About the Author
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.
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.
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What is Rockabilly?,
By A Customer
This review is from: Rockabilly a Bibliographic Resource Guide (Hardcover)
The authors claim that Rockabilly music defies easy definition and this is reflected in their Rockabilly resource guide. Barebone entries for books and articles cover selected artists/groups subjective to the preference of the authors. No guidelines for inclusion have been developed. No annotations for entries provide explanation or analysis. Cited sources seem general in nature, not specific as to rockabilly influence or contribution by the artist. However, the bibliography does contain sources specific to the genre. The authors claim, "the rockabilly sound has never secured analytical baptism by an ethnomusicologist/historian," and this book reaffirms that premise
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What the......?,
By Sterling E. Price (Brooklyn, N.Y.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rockabilly a Bibliographic Resource Guide (Hardcover)
We need more rockabilly books by real writers, not academics who write in their own vernacular. They write for themselves, not for readers. So, please, give it to us straight! Books like this do not.
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