Reviews in brief

Authors

  • Dave Laing University of Liverpool Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v9i3.31856

Keywords:

madness, rock and roll, art of record production

Abstract

Nicola Spelman, Popular Music and the Myths of Madness. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 1994. 194 + xi pp. £95. ISBN 978-1-4094-1831-3 (hbk).   Simon Frith and Simon Zagorski-Thomas, eds, The Art of Record Production: An Introductory Reader for a New Academic Field. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 301 + xix pp. £20. ISBN 978-1-4094-0678-5 (pbk).   Larry Birnbaum, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ’n’ Roll. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013. 461 + x pp. $44. ISBN 978-0-8108-8628-5 (pbk).

Author Biography

  • Dave Laing, University of Liverpool

    Dave Laing is a writer, editor and lecturer, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. His works include The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985) and (with Phil Hardy) The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music (1995). He is an editor of the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World whose first volumes were published in 2003.

References

Nicola Spelman, Popular Music and the Myths of Madness. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 1994. 194 + xi pp. £95. ISBN 978-1-4094-1831-3 (hbk).


Simon Frith and Simon Zagorski-Thomas, eds, The Art of Record Production: An Introductory Reader for a New Academic Field. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 301 + xix pp. £20. ISBN 978-1-4094-0678-5 (pbk).


Larry Birnbaum, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ’n’ Roll. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013. 461 + x pp. $44. ISBN 978-0-8108-8628-5 (pbk).

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Published

2016-09-08

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 3 (2014)

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Reviews

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How to Cite

Laing, D. (2016). Reviews in brief. Popular Music History, 9(3), 306-308. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v9i3.31856