History of Rock

Rita is a music researcher with a Master´s degree in English and American Culture. During her Masters, she specalised in Inter-Arts Studies (Cinema and Literature). Rita is also a teacher and a publisher. She has written and published chronicles and music critiques in various newspapers and music sites. In 2012, she co-founded the publishier Edições Escafandro. Here she coordinates and publishes books, and deals with the revision and organization of texts. In December 2017, she published in Portuguese the first-ever complete and illustrated history of rock music for children: "A História do Rock (para pais fanáticos e filhos com punkada)". This has now published in Sweden, and is due to publish in the US, Canada, Mexico and the UK. Joana is a published illustrator, animator and designer. She worked in Portugal and Italy after studying drawing and illustration in Barcelona, and has collaborated on several children's books, some of which became part of the official recommended books for children in Portugal.

1: INTRODUCTION
2: THE PIONEERS OF ROCK
3: ROCK COWBOYS
4: MISSISSIPPI BLUES
5: SOUL AND RHYTHM
6: OLD TRADITIONS, NEW GUITARS
7: RIDING THE WAVES
8: SWINGING 60S
9: PSYCHEDELIC 60S
10: REGGAE RHYTHMS
11: AHEAD OF THE TIMES
12: ELECTRIC SYMPHONIES
13: HARD AS A ROCK
14: TRAILBLAZERS
15: FEATHERS AND GLITTER
16: SUPER POP
17: WACKY BANDS
18: RAISE YOUR DEVIL HORNS
19: GIRL POWER
20: SMASH IT!
21: SMASH IT HARDER!
22: NEW WAVE
23: MELANCHOLIC ROCK
24: FOLK PUNK
25: MADCHESTER
26: YO YO YO!
27: ALTERNATIVE NATION
28: MUSICAL MACHINERY
29: FLANNEL SHIRTS
30: 90S GENERATION
31: AS BRIT AS IT GETS
32: MIXING BOARD
33: FUSED METAL
34: NEW MILLENNIUM
35: ENCHANTED FOREST
36: MIX AND MATCH
37: NAVIGATE AN ORCHESTRA OF MUSIC GENRES
38: GLOSSARY
39: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS