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| Authors: |
Wald, Elijah.
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| Title: |
How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll : an alternative history of American popular music / Elijah Wald. |
| Published: |
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
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| Description: |
x, 323 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: |
Amateurs and executants -- The ragtime life -- Everybody's doin' it -- Alexander's got a jazz band now -- Cake eaters and hooch drinkers -- The king of jazz -- The record, the song, and the radio -- Sons of Whiteman -- Swing that music -- Technology and its discontents -- Walking floors and jumpin' jive -- Selling the American ballad -- Rock the joint -- Big records for adults -- Teen idyll -- Twisting girls change the world -- Say you want a revolution -- Epilogue: the rock blot and the disco diagram. |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-289) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780195341546 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0195341546 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Subject: |
Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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| Title: |
How the Beatles destroyed rock and roll |
| HOLLIS number |
012002857 |
| Link to this record |
http://hollis.harvard.edu//accessible.ashx?itemid=%7clibrary%2fm%2faleph%7c012002857
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