Growing Old With Rock N Roll The Changing Face of Popular Music Fans

You've got a decent pension on top of social security, you adore your grandkids, you're watching your cholesterol-you're a rock 'n' roll fan. Growing Old with Rock 'n' Roll explores the new face of a genre once associated with countercultures and youth, and that face is increasingly mainstream and adult. Having studied popular music over decades, Kotarba argues that as baby boomers age, rock continues to shape their lives and identities in powerful but new ways, from parent-child interaction and conflict resolution within rock-fan families to social class and consumption behavior. He also examines aging musicians' professional choices, lifestyle adaptations, and health. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Kotarba's engaging prose will make this book particularly successful as an undergraduate and graduate text in the fields of sociology, American studies, cultural studies, and popular music. It is also a book that no rock 'n' roll fan with an emerging spot of grey can afford to miss.Kotarba, Joseph A. is the author of 'Growing Old With Rock N Roll The Changing Face of Popular Music Fans', published 2007 under ISBN 9781598740202 and ISBN 1598740202.