Rocking Around the Clock · Music Television, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture

This set reissues a host of previously out-of-print books that focus on the phenomenon of popular music in all its many guises. From the early days of professional songwriting, to the innovations of jazz and blues then the cultural revolution of rock 'n' roll, this set forms an essential reference collection that takes us up to the modern art/style/music culture crossovers, including a detailed analysis of the visual portrayal of music via its videos.