How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll
An Alternative History of American Popular Music
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 November 2011
- ISBN 9780199756971
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 237x155x22 mm
- Weight 472 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar clichés 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.
MoreLong description:
Overthrowing the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history, Elijah Wald traces the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies--including the role of records, radio, jukeboxes and television--to give a fuller, more balanced account of the broad variety of music that captivated listeners over the course of the twentieth century.
Wald revisits original sources--recordings, period articles, memoirs, and interviews--to highlight how music was actually heard and experienced over the years. In a refreshing departure from more typical histories, he focuses on the world of working musicians and ordinary listeners rather than stars and specialists. He looks at the evolution of jazz as dance music, and rock 'n' roll through the eyes of the screaming, twisting teenage girls who made up the bulk of its early audience. Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and the Beatles are all here, but Wald also discusses less familiar names like Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, Mitch Miller, Jo Stafford, Frankie Avalon, and the Shirelles, who in some cases were far more popular than those bright stars we all know today, and who more accurately represent the mainstream of their times.
"Wald's book is suave, soulful, ebullient and will blow out your speakers."
--Tom Waits
"Wald is a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer and a committed contrarian.... An impressive accomplishment."
--Peter Keepnews, New York Times Book Review
"One of those rare books that aims to upend received wisdom and actually succeeds."
--Kirkus Reviews
"It is as an alternative, corrective history of American music that Wald's book is invaluable. It forces us to see that only by studying the good with the bad--and by seeing that the good and bad can't be pulled apart--can we truly grasp the greatness of our cultural legacy."
--Malcolm Jones, Newsweek
"Wald wears his scholarship lightly, but his ideas and insights are substantial.... The attention-grabbing title, for all its counterintuitive appeal, gives scant indication of the book's ambitions and achievements."
--David Suisman, The Sixties
Table of 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
Bibliography
Index
