Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977

"Although the book offers some glimpses of the world outside rock, it can be curiously rockocentric; it rarely suggests that the music might be affected by political and economic events. In his chapter about Altamont, he calls the corpses left at the concert, and in 1968's worldwide student demonstrations, 'portents of a potentially murderous descent into psychic as well as social chaos that became, through the music and myth of the Rolling Stones, an even more ominous feature of the cultural form.' Powerful as the Stones myth may have been, other forces were also at work.Miller, James is the author of 'Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977', published 2000 under ISBN 9780684865607 and ISBN 0684865602.