n of southern Blacks to the North during and after World War II. An increase in "race programming on urban radio stations reflected that population shift. Until that time, black music, labeled "rhythm and blues" had been largely inaccessible to white audiences, now all they had to do was turn on a radio."
             FLOWERS IN THE DUSTBIN: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977, written by James Miller, deals exclusively with this topic. Flowers in the Dustbin represents Miller's latest rock history project. He's been writing about rock and roll since 1967. In the 1980s, he was the rock critic for Newsweek and he edited the critical essays on individual musicians contained in the first Rolling Stones' Illustrated History of Rock and Roll. This book is a detailed history of rock and roll that focuses on specific moments in the history this genre and relates them to popular culture, politics, and the sociological status of America during this time. Millers extensive background would imply he has thoroughly cover rock over the last three decades, there are glaring gaps in his coverage, as Miller himself admits in his preface – notably girl groups, garage bands, singers-songwriters, heavy metal, funk, and country-rock. The period after 1967, he covers but with obvious distaste because as he states, "Nobody, young or old, could any longer experience the core feelings -- of wonder and surprise -- that rock and roll had really excited, once upon a time." His book shows both how the rock and roll revolution influenced the history of the sixties and how history influenced the rock and roll revolution. Miller points out that not one circumstance sparked the rock revolution, rather it was a large number of different factors that changed our history forever. Rock was the loudest form of non-violent rebellion that a generation embraced as a savior for a society that forced youth to conform and co-exist with other molded in...