You Say You Want a Revolution: Rock Music in American Culture

Robert G. Pielke -- You Say You Want a Revolution: Rock Music in American Culture

*Robert Pielke's book "You Say You Want A Revolution: Rock Music in American Culture" has been described by Richard Koenigsberg, Ph. D. in his review thusly: "This is one of the most accurate and significant books ever written describing the impact of rock 'n' roll as a cultural form that worked to transform American culture." Accordingly, it is now in use as a major text in courses in American Culture and is frequently cited by others in various academic fields. Most recently, for example the book as well as the circumstances surrounding its "respectability" in the "academic community" are referred to in "What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis" By Ken Stephenson . B. Lee Cooper and Wayne Haney's "Rock Music in American Popular Culture III: More Rock 'n' Roll Resources" mentions Robert Pielke in the preface as one of the major contemporary analysts of the rock music phenomenon, and pointely cites "You Say You Want A Revolution" to illustrate.

*Other references to this book include Deena Weinstein's "Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture, Robin Sylvan's "Traces of The Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music, Janelle Wilson's chapter "Lost in the Fifties" in "The Narrative Study of Lives" edited by Lieblich and Josselson, James Perone's "Music of The Counterculture Era" (Part of the American History Through Music series edited by David Brinkman), B. Lee Cooper's "Popular Music Perspectives: Ideas Themes and Patterns in Contemporary Lyrics" and David Walley's "Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post-Elvis Age" One of the more unusual citations of this book is the one in "VeloNews: The Journal of Competitive Cycling"

*European scholars cite this work as well. The list includes the study of John Dean and Jean-Paul Gabilliet "European Readings of American Popular Culture" and Nicola Nowak's "'The Times They Are A-Changin': Pop- und Rockmusik in den USA der fünfziger und sechziger Jahre"

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