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Altschuler Glenn C
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Titolo: |
All shook up [[electronic resource] ] : how rock 'n' roll changed America / / Glenn C. Altschuler
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina: | 781.66/0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Rock music - Social aspects - United States |
Rock music - United States - History and criticism | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | All shook up : popular music and American culture, 1945-1955 -- Brown-eyed handsome man : rock 'n' roll and race -- Great balls of fire : rock 'n' roll and sexuality -- Yakety yak, don't talk back : rock 'n' roll and generational conflict -- Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news : rock 'n' roll and the pop culture wars -- The day the music died : rock 'n' roll's lull and revival. |
Sommario/riassunto: | The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it ""musical riots put to a switchblade beat""--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify?. As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950's, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's ""switchblade beat"" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, |
Titolo autorizzato: | All shook up ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-771113-8 |
0-19-983957-3 | |
1-280-48122-6 | |
0-19-803191-2 | |
0-19-518390-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910783268303321 |
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