Rock Music Styles (Paperback)

~ Katherine Charlton (Author)

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Product Description

Rock Music Styles blends musical commentary into an historical and social framework as it traces the development of rock music from its roots in country and blues to the most contemporary trends. Through well-chosen song examples and easy-to-read listening guides, students will experience firsthand the defining characteristics of rock styles and develop the ability to make connections between the popular music of yesterday and today.

About the Author

Katherine Charlton Calkins is returning to the position of chair of the music department at Mt. San Antonio College in fall, 2008, after having had a full-year sabbatical to study music by women composers. As a performer, she has a degree in classical guitar and has toured in Southern France and Tuscany playing lute with an early music group with her late, first husband Andrew Charlton. She also played percussion in the California University at Fullerton Wind Ensemble when they toured in Japan. She got her M.A. degree in music history and has continued with further graduate study in that same field. As a teacher, she started the guitar program at Mt. San Antonio College in 1974, where she continues to teach music history and appreciation. She began to teach a course in the history of rock music in the early nineteen-eighties and decided to try writing her own book because she did not really like any that were available at that time. That book, Rock Music Styles: A History was published in its first edition in 1990 and is now out in its fifth edition, published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Her second book, Experience Music, also published by McGraw-Hill, will be out in its second edition summer of 2008.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 5 edition (December 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0073121622
• ISBN-13: 978-0073121628
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #139,901 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A balanced, comprehensive look at rock from the beginning., March 30, 1999

By	Paul Saevig, [e-mail] (Santa Ana, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rock Music Styles: A History (Paperback)

Ms. Charlton's History is the rare rock book written from a musician's point of view. She starts from the very beginning in blues and jazz, and traces the various developments in what we call "rock". For example, she shows there could be no Rolling Stones without Little Richard, and no Little Richard without Howlin' Wolf and gospel. Ms. Charlton is eminently democratic in her even-handed discussion of ALL important rock acts, from Chuck Berry and Bill Haley to Ten Inch Nails. The roles of these groups are musicians are woven together in prose that is always calmly reflective and thorough, while never without enthusiasm. Ms. Charlton obvious loves rock music, and her book is an enduring trust for all those who love it also.

4.0 out of 5 stars Rock Music Styles, March 8, 2010

By	Julia K. Vasquez - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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the book was in good condition, just wish it could have been shipped out a little sooner

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, February 14, 2010

By	Josephine Vargas (Bakersfield, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Seller did not state the condition of the book. While the cover was presentable, once you open it though... there were many pages highlighted and underlined in pen. (Pen marks were various colors too.) Also, various pages were folded or even torn. If I had known this, I would have probably gone to a different seller for this book, with a clear, specified "used condition discription." I was under the assumption that this book was in ->at least<- good condition. Due to it's arrival timing (my fault for ordering it late), I didn't have time to reorder a new copy for class.