Background
Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. was born on June 19, 1945, in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. His father's name was Robert Palmer Sr.
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Rock and roll is a profoundly American art form, the musical expression of revolutionary changes in popular culture and values, a Dionysian eruption that hit the white-bread fifties like a hurricane.
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Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. was born on June 19, 1945, in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. His father's name was Robert Palmer Sr.
Palmer was educated at the Little Rock University (now the University of Arkansas at Little Rock), graduating from it in 1964.
Palmer began his career as a musician, playing saxophone and clarinet in blues and rock bands. One of his first writing jobs was for Go magazine in New York and during that time his band, Insect Trust, made two albums, one in 1968 and the other in 1970. In the 1970s, Palmer became a full-time writer and contributor to Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly, Journal of American Folk Lore, Ethnomusicology, and was associate editor of Changes magazine. He started writing for the New York Times in 1976 and in 1981 became the paper’s first full-time pop music critic, staying at that working position till 1988.
His first book, Baby, That Was Rock & Roll, was published in 1978. Palmer wrote his book Deep Blues three years later. His other books included Tale of Two Cities: Memphis Rock and New Orleans Roll (1979), Jerry Lee Lewis Rocks! (1981), and The Rolling Stones (1983). He also wrote and directed the documentary The World According to John Coltrane.
Besides writing, Palmer also taught an American Music curriculum at Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, Brooklyn College, Bowdoin College and the University of Mississippi. In the early 1990s he produced two albums of Mississippi Delta juke-joint blues. In 1995, Palmer published Rock and Roll: An Unruly History, based on the Public Broadcasting Service's documentary of the same name to which he served as chief adviser.
(Rock and roll is a profoundly American art form, the musi...)
1995(With chapters which correspond to the episodes of a BBC2 ...)
1996(Traces the development of the music of the rock band, the...)
1983(Takes a detailed look at the career of an influential and...)
1981Palmer was survived by his fourth wife, JoBeth Briton, and a daughter Augusta by a previous marriage.