Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary Poets from 1951-1977 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881460478 ISBN 13: 9780881460476

Publisher: Mercer University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Alan Freed ( a disc jockey who coined the term rock n' roll) organized the Moondog Coronation ball in Cleveland, Ohio, where it was estimated 20,000 fans crashed the gates and caused the event to be cancelled. This is considered by historians to be the first rock concert and the birth of rock 'n' roll. A person would be hard pressed to discover a modern American poet born between 1951 and 1977 who was not influenced by popular music. Throughout this turbulant twenty-six-year period, the music wove its way into and through the country's sub-consciousness. The period between 1951 and 1977 were watershed years for the country and the underlying influence to a monumental degree was popular music. It was exciting, youthful, and electric. Its influence was indelible. Under the Rock Umbrella brings together the best poets influenced by this powerful era in music to allow us to examine the music of each poet's own verse.

About this title

About the Author:

William Walsh is the author of Ampersand, Mass., Questionstruck, Unknown Arts, Pathologies (all from Keyhole Press), and Without Wax: A Documentary Novel (Casperian Books). His stories and derived texts have appeared in Annalemma, Artifice, Caketrain, New York Tyrant, Juked, Quick Fiction, No Colony, Rosebud, Quarterly West, LIT, and other journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0881460478
• ISBN 13: 9780881460476
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 449
• Editor: Walsh William