EAN: 9781493064595

33 1 3 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE - MIKE SEGRETTO K...

Whether you're a lifelong collector or have only just gotten hip to the vinyl revival 
navigating the vast landscape of rock albums can be a daunting prospect. Enter Mike Segretto
and his mammoth 33 1 3 Revolutions Per Minute  a history of the rock LP era told through a very
personal selection of nearly 700 albums. Beginning with the birth of rock and roll in the 1950s
Segretto moves through the explosive innovations of the 1960s  the classic rock and punk albums
of the 1970s  the new wave classics of the 1980s  and the alternative revolution of the 1990s 
always with an eye to both the iconic and the ephemeral  the failed experiments and the
brilliant trailblazers. It's all here: everything from the classics (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band  Purple Rain  Nevermind  and countless other usual suspects) to such oddities
as albums by Johnny Guitar Watson  P. P. Arnold  The Dentists  and Holly Golightly. Throughout
Segretto reveals the perpetual evolution of a modern art form  tracing the rock album's journey
from a vehicle for singles and filler sold to kids  through its maturation into a legitimate 
self-contained medium of expression by 1967  and onward to its dominance in the '70s  '80s  and
'90s. Whether you read it from cover to cover  seek out specific albums  or just dip in at
random and let the needle fall where it may  33 1 3 Revolutions Per Minute is a fun 
informative  and unapologetically opinionated read.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9781493064595

Produktinformationen zur 9781493064595