Rock and Pop reading list
Barrow, Steve, and Dalton, Peter, Reggae: The Rough Guide, London, Rough Guides, 2001
Bennett, Andy, and Toynbee, Jason, eds., The Popular Music Studies Reader, London: Routledge, 2006
Berelian, Essi, The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal, London: Rough Guides, 2005
Buckley, Peter, ed., The Rough Guide to Rock, 3rd edn., London,,Rough Guides, 2003
Christe, Ian, Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, London, Allison & Busby, 2004
Cohn, Nik, Awopbopaloobop alopbamboom: Pop From the Beginning, London: Pimlico, 2004
Cooper, Kim, and Smay, David, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001
Dodd, Philip, The Book of Rock, revised edn., New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005
Glasper, Ian, Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk, 1980-1984, London: Cherry Red, 2004
Harris, John, The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock, London, Fourth Estate, 2003
Haslam, Dave, Not Abba: The Real Story of the 1970s, London, Fourth Estate, 2005
Macdonald, Ian, The People’s Music, London, Pimlico, 2003
Nowell, David, Too Darn Soulful: The Story of Northern Soul, London, Robson Books, 2001
Paytress, Mark, I Was There: Gigs That Changed the World, London: Cassell, 2005)
Poulsen, Henrik Bech, ’77: The Year of Punk & New Wave (London: Helter Skelter, 2005
Sabin, Roger, ed., Punk Rock, So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk, London: Routledge, 1999
Simpson, Paul, ed., The Rough Guide to Cult Pop, London: Rough Guides, 2003
Strong, M.C., The Great Rock Discography, 7th ed., Edinburgh: Canongate, 2004
Taylor, Steve, The A to X of Alternative Music, London: Continuum, 2004
Unterberger, Richie, Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of 60s Rock, San Francisco, Miller Freeman, 2000
Waldman, Tom, We All Want to Change the World: Rock and Politics from Elvis to Eminem, Lanham, Maryland,Taylor Trade, 2003
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