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By Elyssa Goodman Aptly titled Rock Concert, Marc Myers’s latest book takes on what the author calls “the cultural phenomenon and the rite of passage” of the rock concert we’ve come to know — and love. In Myers’s cinematic construction, the book examines the development of the arena rock show through an oral history that spans from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s. We get insights not just from beloved rock and roll icons like Ronnie Spector (may she rest), Joan Baez, Alice Cooper and Angus Young, but from people behind the scenes, who photographed, lit, assembled and created soundscapes for ac…