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Rock and Roll: Its History and Stylistic Development, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (August 16, 2019) © 2020

  • Scott D. Lipscomb San Diego State University

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For courses in Introduction to Rock Music.

An introduction to the sound and social influence of rock music

Rock and Roll: Its History and Stylistic Development introduces the elements of this enduring musical style, while emphasizing the genre's role as an influential social factor for more than 5 decades. Author Scott Lipscomb details the biographies and accomplishments of major rock artists and bands. Throughout, Lipscomb focuses on the sound of the music being discussed to assist the reader in developing analytical listening skills and a comprehensive musical vocabulary.

Updated to reflect recent events and recordings, the 8th Edition offers new features that better enable active listening.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Take Note sections at the beginning of each chapter present a series of key questions for students to focus on as they read. The questions are revisited, and concise answers are presented, at the end of the chapter.
  • Listening Guides make the details of musical sections more readily apparent. These guides include minutes:seconds tracking for selected recordings and contrasting colors that visually identify particular sections, aiding both auditory and visual learners.
  • Become an Active Listener activities foster the development of listening skills, enhancing student understanding.
  • Suggested listening activities in each chapter prompt students to embark on additional listening, enhancing their understanding of key concepts.

New and updated features of this title

  • UPDATED: All text content has been updated thoroughly to include recent events, recordings, and other changes since the publication of the 7th Edition.
  • UPDATED: Musical Close-Ups in each chapter delve into particular musical elements, styles and musicians. For the 8th Edition, these features have been integrated into the content of each chapter.
  • NEW: Timelines place significant recordings, accomplishments and other aspects of an artist's or group's career into a chronological sequence of events.
  • UPDATED: A more complete inclusion of chart positions of albums and singles provides additional context.
  • UPDATED: Music for this title is available as a playlist on Spotify.

Features of Revel for the 8th Edition

  • NEW: Numerous audio examples embedded in the text enable students to listen as they first encounter concepts, reinforcing learning.
  • NEW: Links to official recordings and videos integrated into the narrative enable students to delve deeper into key content at the point of relevancy in the reading process.
  • NEW: Animated audio-visual examples of most music-notation images in the text make complex concepts more accessible.
  • UPDATED: The glossary has been fully integrated into the text content so that hovering over a bold-faced term immediately reveals its definition.

1. The Roots of Rock
2. The Emergence of Rock and Roll
3. 1950s-style Rock and Roll
4. Transitional Styles of Rock in the Early 1960s
5. The Beatles
6. The British Invasion
7. Folk Music and Folk Rock
8. Soul and Motown
9. San Francisco
10. Jazz Rock
11. Art Rock
12. Mainstream Rock
13. The Continuing Fragmentation of Rock
14. (Heavy) Metal
15. Dance Music
16. Rap and Hip-Hop
17. Alternative Styles
18. An Overview and an Editorial

About our authors

Scott D. Lipscomb is currently Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Director of Graduate Studies at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), University of Cincinnati. Dr. Lipscomb has co-authored this text since the 3rd Edition, along with his colleague Joe Stuessy. He played professionally in rock bands beginning in the late 1970s, culminating with his time with The Coupe, a Los Angeles-based rock band from 1982 to 1987, traveling and performing throughout North America. Scott played bass, keyboards, and alto sax, and sang lead and background vocals. In his current administrative role at CCM, he is responsible for all academic and curricular issues for the college, along with student advising and support. His primary areas of research interest include rock music history, understanding the role of sound and music in various forms of multimedia (especially motion pictures and video games), music perception, multimedia cognition, the impact of technology on the music learning experience, incorporation of music across the K-12 curriculum, and interactive instructional media development. He frequently presents results of his research at regional, national, and international conferences, and his work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Dr. Lipscomb co-edited a volume entitled The Psychology of Music in Multimedia (2013, Oxford University Press) and is Editor of the Journal of Technology in Music Learning. Dr. Lipscomb holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Systematic Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his B.M. in Jazz Performance (with an emphasis in electric and acoustic basses) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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