Book Reviews

Rock On Almanac: The First Four Decades Of Rock ‘N’ Roll—A Chronology . Complied by Norm N. Nite. The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Rock (sixth edition). Pete Frame, John Tobler, Ed Hanel, Roger St. Pierre, Chris Trengove, John Beecher, Clive Richardson, Gary Cooper, Marsha Hanlon, and Linda Sandahl. The Old Time Rock And Roll: A Chronicle Of An Era, 1954–1963 . Richard Aquila. Ayres' The Rock Music Source Book (Doubleday, 1980), Jeff Green's The 1987 Green Book: Songs Classified By Subject (Professional Desk References, 1986), and B. Lee Cooper's A Resource Guide To Themes In Contemporary American Song Lyrics, 1950–1985 (Greenwood Press, 1986). Inside The Music Business: Music In Contemporary Life . Michael Fink. Review of Simply Cinema . Perry F. Mills. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650–1850 . Dianne Dugaw. Handbook Of American Popular Culture —Three Volumes (second edition, revised and enlarged). M. Thomas Inge, editor. Dictionnaire de la bande dessinée . Henri Filippini. Politics in Familiar Places: Projecting Politics through Popular Media . Robert L. Savage and Dan Nimmo, editors. Conversations with Tom Wolfe . Dorothy M. Scura, editor. Television And The Quality Of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience . Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema . Gene D. Phillips. Constructing a Sociology of the Arts Vera L. Zolberg.