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Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself: A Screen History By John Scanlan. London, UK: Reaktion Books, 2022.

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Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself: A Screen History By John Scanlan. London, UK: Reaktion Books, 2022.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2025

Kate McQuiston
Kate McQuiston*
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Department of Music, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, HI, USA
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Email: mcquisto@hawaii.edu
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , November 2024 , pp. 407 - 409
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Music

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References

1 Coates, Norma, “If anything, blame Woodstock. The Rolling Stones, Altamont, December 6, 1969,” in Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time, ed. Inglis, Ian (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006), 58–69Google Scholar.

2 Broader considerations of popular music, including musicals and a greater share of black genres, has illuminated and deepened studies on rock films, including Donnelly, Kevin J., Magical Musical Tour: Rock and Pop in Film Soundtracks (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar and James, David E., Rock ‘n’ Film: Cinema's Dance with Popular Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)Google Scholar.

3 A resurgence of scholarly interest in rock films, occasioned by their rereleases on DVD, has refreshed an understanding of the genre and specific filmed performances. See Inglis, Performance and Popular Music, 2006, and The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop, ed. Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar, and Kristy Fairclough-Isaacs (New York: Routledge, 2013).

4 The same incident is rendered in crisp, urgent detail by Norma Coates, “If anything, blame Woodstock,” 58–69, and Wierzbicki, James in When Music Mattered: American Music of the Sixties (Cham, CH: Springer International Publishing, 2022)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.