Part I. Albums, Songs, Players, and the Core Repertory of the Rolling Stones: 1. The Rolling Stones: albums and singles, 1963–1974 John Covach; 2. Guitar slingers and hired guns: the musicians of The Rolling Stones Bill Janovitz; 3. The Rolling Stones in 1968: in defense of lingering psychedelia John Covach; 4. Exile, America, and the theater of The Rolling Stones, 1968–1972 Victor Coelho; 5. Post exile: The Rolling Stones in a disco-punk world, 1975–1983 Paul Harris; Part II. Sound, Roots, and Brian Jones: 6. The Rolling Stones's sound: at the crossroads of roots and technology Ralph Maier; 7. Driving Stones country in five songs Daniel Beller-Mckenna; 8. A 'gust of fresh air': Brian Jones, assemblage, and world music Brita Renée Heimarck; Part III. Stones on Film, Revival, and Fans: 9. Shine a light: The Rolling Stones on film Michael Brendan Baker; 10. Second life and the dynamics of revival: The Stones after 1989 Victor Coelho; Afterword: being a Rolling Stones fan is not a choice but a state of mind Philippe Puicouyoul.
The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.
Victor Coelho is Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Early Music Studies at Boston University, as well as a lutenist and guitarist. His previous publications include Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture (with Keith Polk, Cambridge, 2016), The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar (Cambridge, 2003), and Performance on Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela (Cambridge, 1997). John Covach is Director of the University of Rochester Institute for Popular Music, Professor of Music in the College Music Department, and Professor of Theory at the Eastman School of Music. He is the principal author of the college textbook What's That Sound?: An Introduction to Rock Music (5th edition, 2018) and has co-edited Understanding Rock (1997), American Rock and the Classical Tradition (2000), Traditions, Institutions, and American Popular Music (2000), and Sounding Out Pop (2010).
'An intriguing prospect for serious Stones fans.' Ian Fortnam,
Classic Rock
'A bold attempt to up the intellectual ante around Stones
criticism.' Jim Wirth, Uncut
'There's an entertaining look at a clutch of Stones country songs …
a decent reassessment of their psychedelic period … and a welcome
upgrade for Brian Jones as founder, world music maverick and the
group's true dandy.' Neil Spencer, The Observer
'… there are some interesting theories as the profs examine how
psychedelia's aftershock resonated after Their Satanic Majesties
and county music infiltrated, giving songs hatched from Keith's
gut-level urges and relentless margination a depth even he might
not have imagined …' Kris Needs, Record Collector
'… The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones constitutes a
balanced work, which should be welcomed in that it inaugurates a
vast field of study and research, that of Rolling Stones studies,
which is set to develop.' Philippe Gonin, Revue de musicologie
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