Night beat : a shadow history of rock & roll / collected writings by Mikal Gilmore.

Author/creator Gilmore, Mikal
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Doubleday, ©1998.
Descriptionix, 461 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Elvis Presley's leap for freedom -- Beatles then, Beatles now -- Subterranean: Bob Dylan's passages -- The Rolling Stone's journey into fear -- The legacy of Jim Morrison and The Doors -- Lou Reed: darkness and love -- Brothers: The Allman Brothers Band -- Keith Jarrett's keys to the cosmos -- Life and death in the U.K.: The Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd., Joy Division, New Order, and the Jesus and Mary Chain -- The clash: punk beginnings, punk endings -- Punk: twenty years after -- Van Halen: the endless party -- Bruce Springsteen's America -- The problem of Michael Jackson -- Upstarts: over & uinder the wall, & into the territory's center (thoughts on politics, sex, violence, dancing, rap, hooligans, and censors).
Abstract Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock & roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings in one essential and illuminating book. Beginning with Elvis and the birth of rock & roll, Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as its youth responded to the postwar economic and political climate.
General noteCollection of previously published articles.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 455-457).
LCCN 97016409
ISBN0385484356 (alk. paper)