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



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Autore: Wald Elijah Visualizza persona
Titolo: How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll : an alternative history of American popular music / / Elijah Wald Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
Disciplina: 781.63
781.640973
781.660973
Soggetto topico: Popular music - United States - History and criticism
Music - United States - History and criticism
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
Altri titoli varianti: How the Beatles destroyed rock and roll
Titolo autorizzato: How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-975356-3
1-282-12530-3
9786612125300
0-19-971213-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819418503321
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