a book written by Piero Scaruffi
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(Note: "A History of Rock Music 1951-2000" is an old draft of 2000 that somehow became a published book and it is still being sold. The proper book is "A History of Rock and Dance Music" in two volumes written in 2008)
ISBN 978-0-9765531-5-1 (Vol 1: 1950-1989)
ISBN 978-0-9765531-6-8 (Vol 2: 1990-2008)
800 pages total, split in two volumes, about 400 pages each. The first volume covers the 1950s to the 1980s. The second volume covers the 1990s and the 2000s. The number of names in the alphabetical index is 4800.
Some of the material about non-rock and pre-rock music until the 1950s is in the "History of Pop Music".
Click here to browse the index and most of the chapters.
The book is available from Amazon: Vol 1 and Vol 2.
You may also be interested in
the History of Popular Music (that includes Blues, Soul, Gospel) and in the
History of Jazz Music 1900-2000
both available from
Amazon.com.
Thanks,
piero scaruffi