Description: In On Becoming a Rock Musician, the sociologist H. Stith Bennett observes what makes a rock musician and then persuades others to take him seriously.
Review Quotes: The information captured in these pages remains as relevant today as it was thirty years ago when rock and roll was still in its nova stage. Bennett's book is perhaps the only one of its kind to explain the relatively inscrutable process of how one finds their own 'sound, ' and in so doing, he expands the reach of sociology deeper into the meaning of social music. A rare combination of scholarship and street smarts.--Ben Sidran, host of NPR's Jazz Alive