LEADER 03170nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910777804903321 005 20230721021426.0 010 $a0-19-975356-3 010 $a1-282-12530-3 010 $a9786612125300 010 $a0-19-971213-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000754344 035 $a(EBL)431354 035 $a(OCoLC)352911283 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000173582 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11170012 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173582 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10174133 035 $a(PQKB)10734219 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC431354 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL431354 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10300123 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL212530 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000754344 100 $a20080924d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll$b[electronic resource] $ean alternative history of American popular music /$fElijah Wald 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (338 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-975697-X 311 $a0-19-534154-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [281]-289) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aBC; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 330 $a""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 606 $aPopular music$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMusic$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aPopular music$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMusic$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a781.63 676 $a781.640973 676 $a781.660973 700 $aWald$b Elijah$01083852 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777804903321 996 $aHow the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll$93755725 997 $aUNINA