Rockin' Out offers a ground-breaking,comprehensive social history of popular music in the United States and Canada. Accessibly written, this text is organized chronologically and thematically around particular genres/styles of music and addresses such dimensions as race, class, gender, ethnicity, technology, copyright and the structure of the music industry as they affected the development of the music. It offers an analysis and critique of the music itself as well as how it is produced and marketed.
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The Canadian edition includes Canadian artists such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who, Rush, Avril Lavigne, Great Big Sea, Feist, Jully Black, and more!Â