Matt Brennan is Reader in Popular Music at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Matt Brennan looks to the music press of the 1950s and 60s, ... [in doing so] revealing a tangled relationship between jazz and what would become rock.

• IntroductionChapter 1 Early American Jazz as the Precursor to Rock ‘n’ RollChapter 2 Down Beat and Mid-Century Popular Music CoverageChapter 3 The American Jazz Press Covers RockChapter 4 The Birth of Rolling StoneChapter 5 Newport 1969 and the Uneasy Coupling of Jazz and RockConclusionIndex

Matt Brennan is Reader in Popular Music at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Matt Brennan looks to the music press of the 1950s and 60s, ... [in doing so] revealing a tangled relationship between jazz and what would become rock.

• IntroductionChapter 1 Early American Jazz as the Precursor to Rock ‘n’ RollChapter 2 Down Beat and Mid-Century Popular Music CoverageChapter 3 The American Jazz Press Covers RockChapter 4 The Birth of Rolling StoneChapter 5 Newport 1969 and the Uneasy Coupling of Jazz and RockConclusionIndex

Matt Brennan is Reader in Popular Music at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Matt Brennan looks to the music press of the 1950s and 60s, ... [in doing so] revealing a tangled relationship between jazz and what would become rock.

• IntroductionChapter 1 Early American Jazz as the Precursor to Rock ‘n’ RollChapter 2 Down Beat and Mid-Century Popular Music CoverageChapter 3 The American Jazz Press Covers RockChapter 4 The Birth of Rolling StoneChapter 5 Newport 1969 and the Uneasy Coupling of Jazz and RockConclusionIndex