Love for sale : pop music in America / David Hajdu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hajdu, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Popular music.

United States.

MUSIC / History & Criticism.

MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal.

Local Subjects:

MUSIC / History & Criticism.

MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

307 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Summary:

From the age of song sheets in the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era of digital streaming, pop music has been our most influential laboratory for social and aesthetic experimentation, changing the world three minutes at a time. Hajdu shows how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies of love and sex to teenagers. Exhaustively researched and rich with fresh insights, Love for Sale details pop music from Eva Tanguay, who upended Victorian conceptions of feminine propriety, to Blondie, the scandal of disco; from Bessie Smith and the 'blues queens' of the 1920s to Jimmie Rodgers, a former blackface minstrel performer who created the country music sound. At every turn, Hajdu surprises and challenges readers to think about our most familiar art in unexpected ways. -- adapted from publisher website.

Contents:

The sheet music era: the zenith of the popular music craze

The rise of records : whispering

The Cotton Club : jungle nights in Harlem

The charts : make-believe island

Going west : Hollywood barn dance

Rock and roll : they went ca-raaaaazy for it!

The transistor : mine completely

Singers and songwriters : potty about Dylan

The album : a pair of twenty-minute things

Punk versus disco : who needs love?

Video : moonwalkers

Hip-hop : beats want to be free

Digitization : the immaterial world

Coda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780374170530

0374170533

OCLC:

947041885