Rock And Roll

Dr. Paul Friedlander is Director of California State University, Chico Music Industry Program. He is author of the Encyclopedia Americana "Rock Music" entry, many book chapters and journal articles, and is past-president of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music/American Chapter. As a musician, he has sung with Pete Seeger's Children's Chorus at Carnegie Hall, played bluegrass banjo at southern music festivals, hit notes with New York homeboys The Chapters, played folk music in Moscow's Gorki Park, and rock and rolled across the U.S.A.

If I were reading about rock music, I would want to keep in mind...; the roots of rock and roll - I went down to the crossroads; classic rockers - the first generation - just give me some of that rock and roll music; classic rockers - the second generation - there's good rockin' tonight; doo-wop - street-corner serenade; the early Sixties - the calm before the storm; The Beatles - because the world is round it turns me on; The Rolling Stones - it's only rock and roll but I like it; The Who - people try to put us down; Bob Dylan - somethin' is happening but you don't know what it is; folk-rock - so you want to be a rock-and-roll star; soul music - R-E-S-P-E-C-T; Motown - Hitsville, USA; the San Francisco sound - people in motion; the guitar kings - and I gave her the gun; the Seventies - dazed and confused; punk rock - buzzsaw bravado and shock politics; the Eighties - the revolution will be televised - it's only rock and roll but I like it. Appendixes: some artists fell through the cracks; the rock window - one way to listen and understand.