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What the world does not need is yet another rock Book. Charlie Gillett, Jerry Hopkins, and Carl Belz have done uneven but credible histories; and Jon Eisen and Greil Marcus have tapped a preponderance of good non-academic articles dealing with the subject.
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THE GOLD OF ROCK AND ROLL 1955-1967 edited by H. Kandy Rohde. Arbor House, 352 pp., $4.95 Paperback
What the world does not need is yet another rock Book. Charlie Gillett, Jerry Hopkins, and Carl Belz have done uneven but credible histories; and Jon Eisen and Greil Marcus have tapped a preponderance of good non-academic articles dealing with the subject. Unfortunately, a large number of people, particularly in the publishing industry, have missed this pojnt and have produced even more explanations of rock using Dylan and the Beatles as the barometers of the music. As with the blind men and the elephant, most come up with the conclusion that rock is poetic, intellectual, and too good for the people that listen to it.