Rita is a music researcher with a Master¿s degree in English and American Culture. During her Masters, she specalised in Inter-Arts Studies (Cinema and Literature). Rita is also a teacher and a publisher. She has written and published chronicles and music critiques in various newspapers and music sites.

In 2012, she co-founded the publishier Edições Escafandro. Here she coordinates and publishes books, and deals with the revision and organization of texts.

In December 2017, she published in Portuguese the first-ever complete and illustrated history of rock music for children: "A História do Rock (para pais fanáticos e filhos com punkada)". This has now published in Sweden, and is due to publish in the US, Canada, Mexico and the UK.

• • 1: INTRODUCTION
  • 2: THE PIONEERS OF ROCK
  • 3: ROCK COWBOYS
  • 4: MISSISSIPPI BLUES
  • 5: SOUL AND RHYTHM
  • 6: OLD TRADITIONS, NEW GUITARS
  • 7: RIDING THE WAVES
  • 8: SWINGING 60S
  • 9: PSYCHEDELIC 60S
  • 10: REGGAE RHYTHMS
  • 11: AHEAD OF THE TIMES
  • 12: ELECTRIC SYMPHONIES
  • 13: HARD AS A ROCK
  • 14: TRAILBLAZERS
  • 15: FEATHERS AND GLITTER
  • 16: SUPER POP
  • 17: WACKY BANDS
  • 18: RAISE YOUR DEVIL HORNS
  • 19: GIRL POWER
  • 20: SMASH IT!
  • 21: SMASH IT HARDER!
  • 22: NEW WAVE
  • 23: MELANCHOLIC ROCK
  • 24: FOLK PUNK
  • 25: MADCHESTER
  • 26: YO YO YO!
  • 27: ALTERNATIVE NATION
  • 28: MUSICAL MACHINERY
  • 29: FLANNEL SHIRTS
  • 30: 90S GENERATION
  • 31: AS BRIT AS IT GETS
  • 32: MIXING BOARD
  • 33: FUSED METAL
  • 34: NEW MILLENNIUM
  • 35: ENCHANTED FOREST
  • 36: MIX AND MATCH
  • 37: NAVIGATE AN ORCHESTRA OF MUSIC GENRES
  • 38: GLOSSARY
  • 39: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS