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The #1 text and digital media package helps students understand rock first and foremost as music. The Sixth Edition offers expanded coverage of race, gender, and the 2010s, and new InQuizitive chapter activities. Now students can build listening skills online as they are guided through historical contexts and musical influences.
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Expanded coverage of race and gender in rock history helps strengthen a more inclusive narrative in each chapter. New coverage includes women of the British Invasion, Latin American influences across the decades, and expanded coverage of Riot grrl and Tina Turner.
The closing of the 2010s provided the authors an opportunity to reflect on the decade and situate the music of the 2010s into a larger context. A new part opener and chapter on the 2010s helps students better understand the most recent decade of rock styles.
The Sixth Edition introduces many exciting new Listening Guides to the text, including songs by Billie Holiday, Blondie, the Go-Go's, No Doubt, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Vampire Weekend, and Ed Sheeran.
John Covach is Professor of Music at the University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music. The recipient of several teaching awards and citations, Professor Covach teaches theory and analysis, as well as courses in popular music.
Andrew Flory is Associate Professor of Music at Carleton College. He has taught rock history to several hundred students in large lecture halls, online sections, and small sections at Carleton.
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