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2025 FSEM 1010-19: The Classic Rock Era of Music (Prof. Bolon): HamCAT for Discovery

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Terminology

  • Rock music--history and criticism
  • Rock musicians
  • Rock groups
  • Singers--biography
  • Music--Genres & Styles--Rock
  • Women Rock musicians

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Types of content you will find in HamCAT

Articles
Bennett. (2009). “Heritage rock”: Rock music, representation and heritage discourse. Poetics (Amsterdam), 37(5), 474–489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2009.09.006. Available through Interlibrary Loan. 

Holmes-Davis, T. (2024). A portrait of self-regulated musical learning behaviors among rock musicians: Applications in music education. International Journal of Music Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/02557614241282883

James. (2017). Toward Woodstock: Structural Transformations in the Rock “n” Roll Musical. Pacific Coast Philology, 52(1), 22–30. https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.52.1.0022

Rings, M. (2023). Melting the Archive: The Irreconcilable Cover Song and Rock’s Recorded History. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 81(4), 525–536. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpad045

Walsh. (2016). Resituating and Rebranding “Classic Rock” in the USA: An Interview with Rickey Medlocke (Lynyrd Skynyrd/Blackfoot). Rock Music Studies, 3(3), 313–320. https://doi.org/10.1080/19401159.2015.1104910. Available through Interlibrary Loan.


Print Books

Charlton, K. (2023). Rock Music Styles: A History (International student edition.). McGraw-Hill US Higher Ed ISE. Order from Interlibrary Loan.

Grohl, D. (2021). The storyteller : tales of life and music (First edition.). Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow. Hamline Bush Library, 3rd Floor, ML420 .G864 A3 2021.

Havranek. (2009). Women icons of popular music : the rebels, rockers, and renegades. Greenwood Press. Hamline Bush Library, 3rd Floor, ML82 .H39 2009

Larkin. (1998). The Billboard illustrated encyclopedia of rock. Billboard Books. Hamline Bush Library, 3rd Floor, ML102 .R6 B55 1998

Studwell, & Lonergan, D. F. (David F. . (1999). The classic rock and roll reader : rock music from its beginnings to the mid-1970s. Haworth Press. Order via ILL from a MnPALS partner library for delivery


Wicke. (1990). Rock music : culture, aesthetics, and sociology (Fogg, Trans.). Cambridge University Press. Hamline Bush Library, 3rd Floor, ML3534 .W57 1990


Ebooks
Blush, S. (2024). When rock met reggae : how the cultural crossover of Bob Marley, The Clash, The Specials, and more changed the face of rock music (First edition.). Backbeat Books.

Carson, Lewis, T., & Shaw, S. M. (Susan M. (2004). Girls rock! : fifty years of women making music. The University Press of Kentucky.

Carter, J. M. (2023). Rockin’ in the ivory tower : rock music on campus in the sixties (1st ed.). Rutgers University Press. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978829411

McDonald. (2009). Rush, rock music and the middle class dreaming in Middletown. Indiana University Press.

Scanlan. (2022). Rock “n” roll plays itself : a screen history. Reaktion Books, Limited.

Videos

Chilcott, Guggenheim, D., Tull, T., Afterman, P., White, J., Page, J., & Evans, D. H. (2008). It might get loud. Sony Pictures Classics.

Hahn, C., & Singh, A. (2022). Lead Belly : the man who invented rock & roll [Video recording]. Music Video Distributors

Kirkendall, & Nobles, M. A. (2012). Teen a go go : a little film about rock and roll history. Cinema Libre Studio

Sarkissian. (2018). “What is classic rock?” Gravitas Ventures.z
Winter, D. (2022). U2 : rockumentary [Video recording]. FilmHub.
 

Dissertations

Friedlander. (1987). A characteristics profile of eight “classic rock and roll” artists, 1954-1959: As measured by the “Rock Window.” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

Vanchella. (2021). Honey Pie, Colors of Dreams, and Inner Light: Stylistic Expertise and Musical Topicality in the Beatles’ Mid and Late 1960s Songs. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.