About this title: In this rock history, a veteran music journalist argues that rock & roll underwent its full creative evolution in 25 years. Tracing the music's origins back to the blues of the 1940s, FLOWERS IN THE DUSTBIN profiles such seminal figures as Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Leiber & Stoller, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and discusses the ...
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Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1999-08-05
ISBN-13:9780684808734ISBN:0684808730
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. VG/VG. Very Good Hardcover book with Very Good Dust Jacket. Binding tight and straight. Pages clean and unmarked. read more
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1st printing, 1999
Description: Very Good/Very Good hard cover. 8vo, boards, 415pp, illus. edgewear dust jacket. light dustsoil topedge, top corner creased page 353, clean and tight text. music. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: c1999
ISBN-13:9780684808734ISBN:0684808730
Description: Good+ in Very Good-dust jacket. 0684808730. Several b/w photos, indexed, 415 pages, some underlining, marginalia and yellow highlighting of text, a tight, solid copy, in a colorful dustjacket. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, U.S.A. :
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684808734ISBN:0684808730
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 416 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. An attractive, fine copy in a fine, mylar protected DJ. 1st edition; 8vo., 416 pages. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684808734ISBN:0684808730
Description: Very Good in Fine jacket. Size: Octavo; VG/F in Brodart. Light yellow highlighting of text throughout book, else fine. 1st edition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684808734ISBN:0684808730
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. New unread copy. 415p.p.; index; read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684808734ISBN:0684808730
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition in tight clean condition with like jacket, only flaw ia a remainder mark to bottom edge. First printing. p. cm. Includes index. Discography: p. read more
Edition: F
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999
ISBN-13:9780684808734ISBN:0684808730
Description: Cloth and Paper Boards. Very Good/Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Page 219 has a section torn out, does not intrude into printing. Clean and crisp. read more
"A history of Rock and Roll told in little vignettes about acts and scenes that he considers important. I enjoyed most of the book, especially the parts about Elvis Presley and the Beatles. I found it interesting when he writes about how Rock started splintering in 1967. I'm not sure about the date, but the idea hit home with me."
"I loved this book -- by far the best rock n roll crit book I've encountered. My only complaint is that it wasn't longer. Unlike so many rock books, this one focuses on individual songs rather than trends or movements or Motown or whatever. There is some general cultural background, but this is always very relevant and very very interesting. Really, I wish this book had been twice as long."
"I think I've been waiting for a book like Flowers In The Dustbin for a long time. There are countless books on rock 'n' roll that glorify and idealize the music and performers, but very rarely is there a book that not only takes an honest look at rock music but also examines and determines its state along the way.
What I mean is, rock 'n' roll lost any innocence it may have had a good fifty years ago. For a very long time, it has been little more than a commodity on the grand scale. Sure, people continue and will continue to get excited about making and hearing rock 'n' roll music, but the ideas a lot of folks have, that rock 'n' roll is some kind of youth music, something pure and unsullied, a voice for change and so on, are absurd.
So, what I enjoyed the most about Miller's book is that, in it, he comes right out and says it. He gives praise to the creativity and spirit of various performers but he doesn't hold back when saying these musicians were untrained (and in some cases not very good), that Elvis turned into a mess, that the hype surrounding Springsteen was, in fact, unwarranted. Miller remains level headed and honest while still acknowledging how great the music was.
I also dug the connections Miller made, the narrative he chose to highlight. He doesn't cover every major event in the history of rock 'n' roll but what he does cover more than adequately illustrates the ideas he's trying to convey. These essays/chapters work just like a novel, taking the reader from 1947 to 1977, following the mystery of what rock 'n' roll is and what it means.
Another great point Miller makes is that music started as being only regionally divided in this country. It took the involvement of the music industry to create the idea of musical genres. At one time, an album like Sgt. Pepper unified people across the board. This kind of thing may never happen again because we've been taught to fit our tastes to demographic friendly categories.
Flowers In The Dustbin is well written and insightful. Definitely pretty essential reading for people interested in rock 'n' roll as a worldwide cultural phenomenon and in the greater implications of rock 'n' roll since it began."
"This book gives a really great history of Rock and Roll, including some very interesting facts about some of my favorite bands. This was required reading for a class but I am very glad I had to read it."
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