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What Is Rock and Roll?

What Is Rock and Roll?

Illustrated by Gregory Copeland

Paperback

$7.99
What Is Rock and Roll?

About the Book

Put on your dancing shoes and move to the music.

Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O'Connor explains what constitutes rock music, follows its history and sub-genres through famous musicians and groups, and shows how rock became so much more than just a style of music influencing fashion, language, and lifestyle.

This entry in the New York Times best-selling series contains eighty illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs.

Product Details

On sale: August 22, 2017
Age: 8-12 years
Grade: Grades 3-7
Page count: 112 Pages
ISBN: 9780451533814
Reading level: Lexile: 940L | Fountas/Pinnell: Y

Author Bio

Jim O'Connor is the author of What Was Pompeii?, What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?, and Who Is Bob Dylan?