Rock Music Icons - Musical and Cultural Impacts

The music, image, performances, and cultural impact of some of the most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music Icons, giving the reader an inside look into the creativity of some of the most prominent rock stars of our time.

List of contents

Introduction: Recreating Elvis Presley
Robert McParland
Chapter 1. Made in Rockdown: Paul McCartney and McCartney III
Richard D. Driver
Chapter 2. Sometimes I Turn: Bob Dylan's Enduring Iconoclasm
Keith Nainby and John Radosta
Chapter 3. Elton John and the Mondegreen Girls
Tanis MacDonald
Chapter 4. Reflections on/of Billy Joel
Joshua S. Duchan
Chapter 5. The Lion of Jamaica: Robert Nesta Marley OM as Icon
Eric Abbey
Chapter 6. Roger Waters and The Wall-Live in Berlin 1990: The Global Broadcast of a Historical Concert
Claudia Bucciferro
Chapter 7. How the 1980s Output of Bruce Springsteen and Morrissey Captured the Working-Class Experience in America and the UK
Anastasia Rose Hyden
Chapter 8. Loving the Alien(ated) Self: Theatricality, Artifice, and the Outsider Mythos of David Bowie
Douglas Rasmussen
Chapter 9. What It Feels Like for a Boy: Masculinity in Madonna's Mid-career Music Videos
David R. Coon
Chapter 10. Killer Queen: Freddie Mercury's Communicative Longevity
Julianna Kirschner
Chapter 11. Ozzy Osborne: Master of Multiple Realities
Candace Ursula Grissom
Chapter 12. Divine Comedy: The Humor and Creativity of Kurt Cobain
Cristian Stromblad
Chapter 13. Obey Your Masters: Metallica's Journey to Icon Status
Paul M. Miller and Thomas R. Davis, Jr.
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Robert McParland - Foreword by Thomas M. Kitts - Contributions by Eric Abbey; Claudia Bucciferro; David R. Coon; Thomas R. Davis Jr.; Richard D. Driver; Joshua S. Duchan; Candace Ursula Grissom; Anastasia Rose Hyden; Julianna Kirschner; Tanis Ma

Product details

• Authors: Robert Mcparland
• Assisted by: Robert Mcparland (Editor), McParland Robert (Editor), Kitts Thomas M. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781666915310
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-531-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Rock, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, Musicians, singers, bands & groups, Popular Music, Composers & songwriters