Detail
ISBN :
| 0195341546 (hardcover) : |
ISBN :
| 9780195341546 (hardcover) : |
Title :
| How the Beatles destroyed Rock 'n' Roll : an alternative history of American popular music / Elijah Wald |
Title-alternative :
| How the Beatles destroyed Rock and Roll |
Subject :
| Popular music |
Subject :
| United States |
Subject :
| History and criticism |
Subject :
| USA |
Subject :
| Unterhaltungsmusik |
Subject :
| Rockmusik |
Subject :
| Popmusik |
Description :
| Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-289) and index |
Table Of Contents :
| Amateurs and executants -- The ragtime life -- Everybody's doin' it -- Alexander's got a jazz band now -- Cake eaters and hooch drinkers -- The king of jazz -- The record, the song, and the radio -- Sons of Whiteman -- Swing that music -- Technology and its discontents -- Walking floors and jumpin' jive -- Selling the American ballad -- Rock the joint -- Big records for adults -- Teen idyll -- Twisting girls change the world -- Say you want a revolution -- Epilogue: the rock blot and the disco diagram.. |
Performer :
| Wald, Elijah |
Publisher :
| Oxford Univ. Press |
Date-issued :
| 2009 |
Type : | Text |
Extent :
| x, 323 p., [16] p. of plates |
publication :
| Oxford u.a. |
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