Takin' Care of Business

In this insightful and timely book, author George Case shows how an important strain of rock music spoke as much to a working-class populist audience as to the rebellious youth audience we typically associate with this music, helping to reset the boundaries of left and right in American society.

George Case is the author of several books on music and popular culture, including Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man, Calling Dr. Strangelove, and Here's To My Sweet Satan. Originally from the steel city of Sault Ste. Marie, he now lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Introduction: Dream On
Salt of the Earth
Wrote A Song For Everyone
Free For All
Workin' Man Blues
Swamp Music
British Steel
For Those About to Rock
Youngstown
One In a Million
Conclusion: Subdivisions
Further Reading
Notes