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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777804903321

Autore

Wald Elijah

Titolo

How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll [[electronic resource] ] : an alternative history of American popular music / / Elijah Wald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-975356-3

1-282-12530-3

9786612125300

0-19-971213-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Disciplina

781.63

781.640973

781.660973

Soggetti

Popular music - United States - History and criticism

Music - United States - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Amateurs and Executants; 2 The Ragtime Life; 3 Everybody's Doin' It; 4 Alexander's Got a Jazz Band Now; 5 Cake Eaters and Hooch Drinkers; 6 The King of Jazz; 7 The Record, the Song, and the Radio; 8 Sons of Whiteman; 9 Swing That Music; 10 Technology and Its Discontents; 11 Walking Floors and Jumpin' Jive; 12 Selling the American Ballad; 13 Rock the Joint; 14 Big Records for Adults; 15 Teen Idyll; 16 Twisting Girls Change the World; 17 Say You Want a Revolution . . .; EPILOGUE: The Rock Blot and the Disco Diagram; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A

BC; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

""There are no definitive histories,"" writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, ""because the past keeps looking different as the present changes."" Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hiphop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream



jazz and rock history. Rather than concentrating on those traditionally favored styles, the book traces the evolutio