Bay Area Book Festival Berkeley, California 2015

Working with and writing about some of the key and most influential artists in American music history, these writers will be sharing the story of American rock from the inside out, including how it intersects with the vagaries of politics, publicity and power.

Speakers:

Dennis McNally (On Highway 61: Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom)
Joel Selvin (Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues)
Moderated by Peter Richardson (No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead)