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How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll : an alternative history of American popular music / Elijah Wald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wald, Elijah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Music--United States--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- How the Beatles destroyed rock and roll
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-289) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-975356-3
- 1-282-12530-3
- 9786612125300
- 0-19-971213-1
- OCLC:
- 352911283
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