From Rock to Rap and Beyond: A History of Popular Music in the Later 20th Century

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A survey of popular music in North America and Britain from the mid-sixties to the present, beginning with the two foremost bands of the British Invasion, the Beatles and Stones, and the development of folk rock....The nineties focuses on the continual mainstreaming of music on the edge of rap, alternative and world beat.