How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar cliches of jazz and rock, looks at what people were playing, hearing and dancing to over the course of the 20th century, using a wealth of original research, curious quotations, and an irreverent fascination with the oft-despised commercial mainstream.
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar cliches of jazz and rock, looks at what people were playing, hearing and dancing to over the course of the 20th century, using a wealth of original research, curious quotations, and an irreverent fascination with the oft-despised commercial mainstream.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Elijah Wald is a musician, writer and historian, whose books include Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues; Narcocorrido, about the modern Mexican ballads of drug trafficking; The Mayor of MacDougal Street (with Dave Van Ronk), and Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music. He has taught music history at UCLA, and written for a variety of newspapers and magazines.
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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 Bibliography Index
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 Bibliography Index
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