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

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

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

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

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

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