Walla Walla Community College Library

Resources on Pop, Rock, Reggae, and Rap Music

Black noise : rap music and black culture in contemporary America / Tricia Rose.
ML 3531.R67 1994

Bob Dylan : behind the shades : a biography / Clinton Heylin.
ML 420.D98 H49 1991

Break on through : the life and death of Jim Morrison / James Riordan and Jerry Prochnicky.
ML 420.M62R6 1991

Buddy Holly : a biography / Ellis Amburn.
ML 420.H595A8 1995

Careless love : the unmaking of Elvis Presley / Peter Guralnick.
ML 420.P96G85 1999

Crosstown traffic : Jimi Hendrix and the post-war rock'n'roll revolution / Charles Shaar Murray.
ML 410.H476M9 1991

Dance with the devil : the Rolling Stones and their times/ Stanley Booth.
ML 421.R64B66 1984

The death of Elvis : what really happened / Charles C. Thompson II and James P. Cole.
ML 420.P96T5 1991

Drumming at the edge of magic : a journey into the spirit of percussion / Mickey Hart with Jay Stevens and with Fredric Lieberman.
ML 419.H34A3 1990

Garcia : an American life / Blair Jackson. ML 419.G36J33 1999

Hip hop America/ Nelson George.
ML 3531.G46 1998

It's only rock 'n' roll : the ultimate guide to the Rolling Stones / James Karnbach and Carol Bernson.
ML 421.R64K37 1997

James Brown, the godfather of soul / James Brown with Bruce Tucker ; new introduction by Bruce Tucker ; epilogue by Dave Marsh.
ML 420.B818A3 1990

Jimi Hendrix : electric gypsy / Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek.
ML 410.H476S5 1991

The kingdom of zydeco / Michael Tisserand.
ML 3560.C25T57 1998

Loser : the real Seattle music story / Clark Humphrey.
ML 3534.H85 1995

Nine inch nails : self destruct / Martin Huxley.
ML 421.N56H89 1997

No direction home : the life and music of Bob Dylan / Robert Shelton.
ML 420.D98S5 1986

The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono / conducted by David Sheff ; edited by G. Barry Golson.
ML 420.L38A5

Ranters and crowd pleasers : punk in pop music, 1977-92 / Greil Marcus.
ML 3534.M362 1993

Rap on rap : straight-up talk on hip-hop culture / edited and with an introduction by Adam Sexton.
ML 3531.R35 1995

Recombinant do re mi : frontiers of the rock era / Billy Bergman and Richard Horn.
ML 3534.B467 1985

Reggae : the rough guide / Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton ; edited by Jonathan Buckley.
ML 3532.B37 1997

Reggae routes : the story of Jamaican music / Kevin O'Brien and Chang, Wayne Chen.
ML 3532.C45 1998

Running with the Devil : power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music / Robert Walser.
ML 3534.W29 1993

Scars of sweet paradise : the life and times of Janis Joplin/ Alice Echols.
ML 420.J77E25 1999

She's a rebel : the history of women in rock & roll / Gillian G. Gaar ; preface by Yoko Ono.
ML 394.G28 1992

Somebody to love? : a rock-and-roll memoir / Grace Slick with Andrea Cagan
ML 420.S6625A3 1998

Talk about the passion : R.E.M., an oral history / Denise Sullivan.
ML 421.R22S8 1994

U2 : the road to pop / Carter Alan.
ML 421.U2A8 1997

Reference

The Billboard book of top 40 albums / Joel Whitburn.
REF ML 156.4.P66W43 1987

Encyclopedia of pop, rock and soul / Irwin Stambler.
REF ML 102.P66S8 1989

Rap music in the 1980s : a reference guide / Judy McCoy.
REF ML128.R28M3 1992

The Rock Who's Who / Brock Helander.
REF ML 102R6H5 1996

The New Rolling Stone encyclopedia of rock & roll / edited by Patricia Romanowski and Holly George-Warren ; consulting editor, Jon Pareles.
REF ML 102.R6R64 1995

Last Modified: 16 Sept 2002