摇滚音乐会：艺术家、后台内部人士和现场粉丝讲述的口述历史

这是一部生动、有趣、广泛的关于摇滚音乐会黄金时代的口述历史，基于对音乐家、推广人、舞台管理人员和其他人的90多次采访，这些人对现场摇滚这一巨大的文化现象做出了贡献
摇滚乐在20世纪50年代兴起几十年后，作为一种统一的体验和一个有影响力的数十亿美元的行业，摇滚音乐会仍然保持着它的魅力和力量。在摇滚音乐会上，备受赞誉的采访者马克·迈尔斯（Marc Myers）着手揭示这一引人注目的现象的历史，从在场的人那里编织出开创性的叙述。
迈尔斯将琼·贝兹、伊恩·安德森、爱丽丝·库珀、史蒂夫·米勒、罗杰·沃特斯和安格斯·杨等偶像的故事与一些人物结合在一起，比如最早开始在电台播放摇滚乐的唱片骑师，比如克利夫兰和纽约的艾伦·弗里德；开发新技术以适应不断增长的摇滚观众的音频工程师；音乐记者，比如滚石乐队的卡梅伦·克劳；以及组织这一切的推动者，比如伍德斯托克的联合创始人迈克尔·朗（Michael Lang），为live rock的平流层崛起创造了一个全面而生动的描述。
Rock Concert通过现场表演的视角，提供了一个迷人的、即时的视角，从20世纪50年代R&B的兴起，到60年代嬉皮士的聚会，再到70年代和80年代不断增长的竞技场巡演，展示了摇滚乐的演变。埃尔维斯·普雷斯利（Elvis Presley）的旋转臀部、60年代带来披头士乐队（甲壳虫乐队）的英国入侵、《感恩死者》（the Penderative Dead）的自由流动卡姆（jams）和平克·弗洛伊德（Pink Floyd）的《墙》（the Wall）只是推动这一丰富叙事的几个具有决定性的音乐行为。摇滚音乐会以摇滚史上的几十位关键人物为特色，充满了丰富多彩的奇闻轶事，它将向任何体验过现场摇滚超越的人发表演讲。
Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There
A lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on over ninety interviews with musicians, promoters, stagehands, and others who contributed to the huge cultural phenomenon that is live rock
Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience—and as an influential multi-billion-dollar industry. In Rock Concert, acclaimed interviewer Marc Myers sets out to uncover the history of this compelling phenomenon, weaving together ground-breaking accounts from the people who were there.
Myers combines the tales of icons like Joan Baez, Ian Anderson, Alice Cooper, Steve Miller, Roger Waters, and Angus Young with figures such as the disc jockeys who first began playing rock on the radio, like Alan Freed in Cleveland and New York; the audio engineers that developed new technologies to accommodate ever-growing rock audiences; music journalists, like Rolling Stone’s Cameron Crowe; and the promoters who organized it all, like Michael Lang, co-founder of Woodstock, to create a rounded and vivid account of live rock’s stratospheric rise.
Rock Concert provides a fascinating, immediate look at the evolution of rock ‘n’ roll through the lens of live performances —spanning from the rise of R&B in the 1950s, through the hippie gatherings of the ’60s, to the growing arena tours of the ’70s and ’80s. Elvis Presley’s gyrating hips, the British Invasion that brought the Beatles in the ’60s, the Grateful Dead’s free flowing jams, and Pink Floyd’s The Wall are just a few of the defining musical acts that drive this rich narrative. Featuring dozens of key players in the history of rock and filled with colorful anecdotes, Rock Concert will speak to anyone who has experienced the transcendence of live rock.

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