Pop and Rock
The Cambridge Companion to POP AND ROCK Simon Frith Will Straw and John Street The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, VIC 3166, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org © Cambridge University Press 2001 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2001 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeface Minion 10.75/14 pt System QuarkXPress™ [SE] A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Cambridge companion to pop and rock / edited by Simon Frith, Will Straw, and John Street. p. cm. – (Cambridge companions to music) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 521 55369 5 (hardback) – ISBN 0 521 55660 0 (paperback) 1. Popular music – History and criticism. 2. Rock music – History and criticism. I. Frith, Simon. II. Straw, Will, 1954– . III. Street, John, 1952– . IV.Series. ML3470.C36 2001 781.64–dc21 00–068908 ISBN 0 521 55369 5 hardback ISBN 0 521 55660 0 paperback Contents Notes on contributors [page vi] Acknowledgements [viii] Introduction and chronology of pop and rock [ix] Part I · Context 1 ‘Plugged in’: technology and popular music Paul Théberge [3] 2 The popular music industry Simon Frith [26] 3 Consumption Will Straw [53] Star profiles I [74] Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, James Brown, Marvin Gaye Part II · Texts,genres, styles 4 Pop music Simon Frith [93] 5 Reconsidering rock Keir Keightley [109] 6 Soul into hip-hop Russell A.
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