Dancing In The Street: Rock'n'Roll

For forty years, rock and roll has continued to reinvent itself, to challenge, to upset as well as delight, to break rules and make new ones.

Well-known American music journalist Robert Palmer illuminates the roots of rock in the fifties and explores its development through to its continuing growth today. In ten key chapters he investigates how the many tributaries - from blues and gospel to reggae, punk and rap - converge and connect.

Illustrated with over 150 photographs and containing new interviews with major artists as well as with often forgotten songwriters, musicians and record producers, this is an authoritative and engagingly personal history of rock and roll music.