Amazon.com description: Product Description: Here's your backstage pass to the history of rock and roll. Thomas Larson's History of Rock & Roll connects music and the culture in which it interacted. Designed for the college non-music major, History of Rock & Roll fuses a text, website, and online music library to cover the music's story of controversy, tragedy, and self-indulgence; and also of love, peace, and the triumph of the human spirit. To meet the needs of today's instructors and students in the information world, History of Rock & Roll: * Details the most important rock styles, how they evolved, and their important artists, as well as a listing of key recordings in each. * Contains biographical information on recording artists, composers, producers, DJs, record executives, and other figures. * Includes access to an accompanying website with interactive activities, listening guides, audio/video links, test banks, and full course management software to assess comprehension. * Includes a four-month subscription to Rhapsody, an online music service with access to over 32 million songs along with written synopses on 65 important recordings.