Researching Rock n' Roll: A Guide to Reference Sources

Abstract

The history of rock n' roll music as a distinctive form is usually traced to the mid‐1950s with the emerging popularity of Bill Haley and the Comets and Elvis Presley. A decade was to elapse, however, before the beginnings of a serious literature of rock, with the appearance of Maury Dean's The Rock Revolution (Edmore Books, 1966). So painfully slow was the acceptance of the new subject that it took until 1972 for the entry “rock music” to be first used in the Cumulative Book Index.

Citation

Feehan, P. (1987), "Researching Rock n' Roll: A Guide to Reference Sources", Reference Services Review, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 91-93. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb060342