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Now updated with two new chapters and an extraordinary collection of photographs, this second edition of Paul Friedlander»s Rock and Roll: A Social History is a smash hit. The social force of rock a …

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As more and more music literature is published each year, librarians, scholars, and bibliographers are turning to music bibliography to retain control over the flood of information. Based on the Conf …