O'Connor explains what constitutes rock music, follows its history and sub-genres through famous musicians and groups, and shows how rock influences fashion, language, and lifestyle. Includes 16 pages of black-and-white photos. Illustrations.

O'Connor explains what constitutes rock music, follows its history and sub-genres through famous musicians and groups, and shows how rock influences fashion, language, and lifestyle. Includes 16 pages of black-and-white photos. Illustrations.

** Put on your dancing shoes and move to the music.*Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O'Connor explains what constitutes rock music, follows its history and sub-genres through famous musicians and groups, and shows how rock became so much more than just a style of music influencing fashion, language, and lifestyle. This entry in the New York Times * best-selling series contains eighty illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs.