How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll : an alternative history of American popular music
"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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (x, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
9780199712137, 9781282125308, 9780199753567, 9786612125300, 0199712131, 1282125303, 0199753563, 6612125306
352911283
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
English
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