The First Rock & Roll Confidential Report - Softcover

Marsh, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039474070X ISBN 13: 9780394740706

Publisher: Pantheon, 1985

Synopsis

Bursting with facts and statistics, opinions, quotes, and hundreds of record, book, and film reviews, this book provides an unvarnished inside look at the people, money, and art of rock

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Reviews

YA Not another superficial pop-culture title, Marsh's book, culled from the pages of his magazine Rock & Roll Confidential , discusses such political, social, and musical topics as the proposed rating system for records, home taping, payola in the music industry, Top 40 radio, hip hop dancing and music and racism on MTV. Marsh champions the fans and musicians while battling what he perceives as corporate and governmental injustices. While Marsh's zeal occasionally blurs his objectivity, he more than makes up for it in his coverage of people and events ignored elsewhere or by looking at them in a different perspective. Whether or not readers agree with the arguments and opinions presented here, the writing is lively and entertaining, and the content is meatier than much of the rock journalism on the market today. Young adults will find this collection to be well-written and thought-provoking. John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, Va.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Rock & Roll Confidential is an influential newsletter for those who know that rock music matters. This volume, compiled from its first two years, contains some of the best contemporary writing about rock. RRC aims in part to unify the disparate strands of popular music ghettoized by radio playlists and MTV: hip hop, gospel, and folk are as likely to appear in its pages as Springsteen or Madonna. RRC 's crusade is for the power and honesty of the music, and there is a tendency as in any crusade to savage those perceived as the enemy. However, the excesses evident in, for example, the gratuitous trashings of Linda Ronstadt and of Olivia Records are balanced by the insights of many of the other contributions, notably Lee Ballinger's fresh and quirky commentary. For public libraries and music collections. Grace Anne A. DeCandido, ``School Library Journal''
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039474070X
• ISBN 13: 9780394740706
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306