The New Rock Dictionary. Box set

This Dictionary is new first of all in its scope: approximately 400 additional entries, or nearly 1,000 pages more than the previous edition (established in 2000). Also in its content: based on abundant documentation, its 2,500 entries have been reviewed, checked with meticulous care, completed and enriched with details, anecdotes and unpublished critical commentaries. It represents a unique encyclopedic compendium on the history of rock, from its roots to its most recent developments.
Written in clear language, without jargon, it is aimed at everyone: beginners and specialists. It allows both the connoisseur to revise his classics and the neophyte to enter a universe of which he knows nothing. More than a simple dictionary, it tells rock as a series of astonishing and sometimes even extraordinary stories, from Elvis Presley to the White Stripes, via the Beach Boys, Black Sabbath, Johnny Cash, Eminem, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, Nirvana, the Pixies, the Velvet Underground and so many others. It gives rock in the broad sense its full human dimension, whether epic, tragic or comic. You must browse this exceptional encyclopedia - as much for its literary quality as for its historical rigor - for the pleasure of getting lost in it and discovering the most incredible characters, the craziest adventures and the most poignant destinies that the second half of the 20th century had the genius to invent.