How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll : an alternative history of American popular music /
Wald, Elijah.
How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll : an alternative history of American popular music / Elijah Wald. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. - 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Originally published: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar cliches of jazz and rock, looks at what people were playing, hearing and dancing to throughout the 20th century, using a wealth of original research, curious quotations, and an irreverent fascination with the oft-despised commercial mainstream.
Specialized.
9780199756971 (pbk.) : £10.99 019975697X (pbk.) : £10.99
Popular music--History and criticism.--United States
Music.
781.6'4'0973
How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll : an alternative history of American popular music / Elijah Wald. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. - 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Originally published: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar cliches of jazz and rock, looks at what people were playing, hearing and dancing to throughout the 20th century, using a wealth of original research, curious quotations, and an irreverent fascination with the oft-despised commercial mainstream.
Specialized.
9780199756971 (pbk.) : £10.99 019975697X (pbk.) : £10.99
Popular music--History and criticism.--United States
Music.
781.6'4'0973