Books in Brief: Rock and Roll Will Stand

Rock and Roll Will Stand, edited by Greil Marcus (Beacon, $7.50). This collection of fourteen essays on how rock came about and why it is still alive and what it all means manages to make rock boring. It gives a short history of rock and how it has brought itself up—just about enough background for the reader to understand what the authors are talking about. But most of the authors go on the assumption that the kids who understand and communicate with rock are the drug-and-flower children—a mistake.

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Rock and Roll Will Stand, edited by Greil Marcus (Beacon, $7.50). This collection of fourteen essays on how rock came about and why it is still alive and what it all means manages to make rock boring. It gives a short history of rock and how it has brought itself up—just about enough background for the reader to understand what the authors are talking about. But most of the authors go on the assumption that the kids who understand and communicate with rock are the drug-and-flower children—a mistake.