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Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time.(Book review)

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Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time. Edited by Ian Inglis. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series.) Burlington, VT: Ash-gate, 2005. [xvi, 205 p. ISBN 0-7546-4056-6. $99.95.] Bibliography, index.

Imagine reducing rock history to a handful of moments, linchpins on which a whole genre might have turned, or as editor Ian Inglis states in the introduction, "signposts to the turbulent, unpredictable and constantly surprising history of rock'n'roll" (p. xvi). This is, in essence, Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time (part of the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series): an exploration of the context surrounding fifteen formative ...

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