Huvudgrupp 1

• Brolinson, Per-Erik; Larsen, Holger, Good vibrations: rockmusikens stilar och trender: de första 25 åren, [Ny utg.], Stockholm, Natur och kultur, 1999
• Johansson, Linus, What's so manly about rock'n'roll (kompendium), Uppsala, 2006
• Key terms in popular music and culture, Malden, Mass., Blackwell, 1999
• Reynolds, Simon; Press, Joy, The sex revolts: gender, rebellion and rock 'n' roll, London, Serpent's Tail, 1995
• The Cambridge companion to pop and rock, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001
• Waksman, Steve, Instruments of desire: the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience, Cambridge, Mass. ; a London, Harvard University Press, 2001
• Walser, Robert, Running with the Devil: power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music, Hanover, N.H., Wesleyan Univ. Press, cop. 1993
• Weinstein, Deena, Heavy metal: the music and its culture, Rev. ed., Boulder, Colo., Da Capo Press, cop. 2000