NOTE: This edition features the same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value; this format costs significantly less than a new textbook. Before purchasing, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN.

For courses in music and the sociology of music.

Understand the social and historical significance of rock¿-and-roll

Brief, authoritative, and up-to-date, David Szatmary's Rockin' in Time: A Social History of Rock-¿and-¿Roll, 9th Edition, weaves the major icons of rock-¿and-¿roll into a larger sociohistorical fabric. Placing rock-and-roll in the context of the social issues that surrounded and shaped it, this book explores topics like the influence of rock music on the Civil Rights Movement, demographic change and the baby boom, the development of the music business, and technological advances. The 9th Edition contains new photos and images, as well as new material on Delta blues, fusion jazz, and electronic dance music.

*Music for your course is available through Spotify.

David P. Szatmary worked in the music industry and taught the history of rock-and-roll at several universities after earning his Ph.D. in American History at Rutgers University. He has contributed to the All Music Guides to Rock, Jazz and Blues and wrote A Time to Rock (Schirmer’s). He also authored Shays’ Rebellion (University of Massachusetts Press, 1980), which has been made into a film and served as the basis for a History Channel program. Szatmary regularly reviews rock and jazz books. In 2014, he retired from his position as the Vice Provost of Educational Outreach at the University of Washington, one of the premier professional and continuing education programs in the country. He is a noted expert and has been interviewed extensively by the media about online learning and higher education budgeting in addition to rock-and-roll.

1. The Blues, Rock-and-Roll, and Racism

2. Elvis and Rockabilly

3. The Teen Market: From Bandstand to Girl Groups

4. Surfboards and Hot Rods: California, Here We Come

5. The New Frontier

6. The British Invasion of America: The Beatles

7. The British Blues Invasion and Garage Rock

8. Motown: The Sound of Integration

9. Acid Rock

10. Fire from the Streets

11. Guitar Heroes and Heavy Metal

12. Back to the Country

13. Escaping into the Seventies

14. The Era of Excess

15. Punk Rock and the New Generation

16. American Hardcore

17. I Want My MTV

18. The Promise of Rock-and-Roll

19. Country Boomers

20. Back to the Future: The Rave Revolution

21. The Generation X Blues

22. Post-Grunge Party

23. The Hip-Hop Nation

24. Metal Gumbo: Rockin’ in the Twenty-First Century

25. The Age of the Internet

26. Life in Wartime

27. Country Counter-Revolution