Those who grew up with the music saw it otherwise. Rock emerged as an unavoidable presence in the mid-1950s, provoking disgust and disdain from the cultural mainstream. Shake It Up is a mix tape of fifty of the most outspoken and distinctly personal voices from a half-century tradition of “revolutionary and often joyous defiance,” in the words of this volume’s editors, ranging from Nat Hentoff’s early recognition of Bob Dylan’s first breakthrough to Greil Marcus’s update on the outer reaches of today’s experimental sound art. Pioneering new attitudes and styles that mirrored the music’s freedom, homemade inventiveness, and rebellious energy, they created a body of writing that is a heady mix of high culture, pop culture, roots culture, the politics of race and gender, philosophical speculation, poetic exploration, and just plain obsessive enthusiasm. Rock music changed America, and the generation of writers that grew up with it embraced the spirit of that change.
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