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Author Austen, Jake

Title TV-a-Go-Go : Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol
Published Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (386 pages)
Contents Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Rock Around the Box: Proto TV Rock and the Order of St. Sullivan; 2 Lip-Synch Traces: Dick Clark, Jack Good, and TV Dance Shows; 3 Faking the Band: Keeping It Unreal with Monkees, Partridges, and Their Play Pals; 4 The Hippest Trip in Town: Black-on-Black Music TV; 5 Never Mind the Bollocks: Here's the Chipmunks!: Rock 'n' Roll Cartoons; 6 Rock Concert: 1970s TV Rock; 7 BEEF BEEF BEEF BEEF BALONEY!: Punk Rock on TV; 8 Video Vanguard: MTV, Music Videos, and the History of Rock 'n' Roll on TV
9 Idol Bands Are the Devil's Workshop:Rock 'n' Roll Reality TV10 Michael Jackson: Chronicle of a Life on TV; Appendix 1: International TV Rock; Appendix 2: Rock 'n' Roll TV Guide; Source Notes; Index
Summary As this critical look brilliantly shows, television has presented the energy of rock in a fabulously entertaining but patently "fake" manner
Notes Print version record
Subject Rock music on television.
Music television -- United States -- History and criticism
Music television.
Rock music on television.
United States.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781556526800
1556526806