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From Tupelo to Woodstock: Youth, Race, and Rock-And-Roll in America 1954-1969

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This book was written by two of my teachers at college, in Lincroft, NJ @ Brookdale Community College. Carl Francese and Richard Sorrell teach the course "1960's Pop Music" @ Brookdale, and in 1998, they wrote this book for their course, because they could find no genuine college level books about the 1960's Music scene. I had known Richard Sorrell from a previous course and I had mentioned to him that I am Die-Hard Beatles fan, and I would talk at length of different topics. He told me that he and another teacher teach a course in Rock and Roll and he thought that I'd be a wonderful addition to the class. So 1 year later, I enrolled in the class. The book does an excellent job of providing the student with detailed biograhpies and discograhpies. Noted chapters of great detail in this book are The Beatles and Elvis Presley. It also is the ideal book for the student who does not know the minimum of any particular artist of the 1960's. Myself, I was not one for Aretha Franklin and Soul, but this book gave me a good overview of what it was about. The most recent version of this book was done in 2000, I believe. It's an excellent book, taught by a pair of exceptional rock and roll buffs.