All Shook Up How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America

Name: All Shook Up How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America
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ISBN: 9780195177497

ISBN-10: 0195177495

ISBN-13: 9780195177497

Edition: 2005

Authors: Glenn C. Altschuler

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The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race. For instance, the birth of rock coincided with the Civil Rights movement and…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/9/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.836

Glenn C. Altschuler is Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. He is a former columnist for the New York Times and the author or coauthor of several books, including Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century and All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America .



Editors' Note


Acknowledgments



"All Shook Up" Popular Music and American Culture, 1945-1955



"Brown-Eyed Handsome Man" Rock 'n' Roll and Race



"Great Balls of Fire" Rock 'n' Roll and Sexuality



"Yakety Yak, Don't Talk Back" Rock 'n' Roll and Generational Conflict



"Roll Over Beethoven, Tell Tchaikovsky the News" Rock 'n' Roll and the Pop Culture Wars



"The Day The Music Died" Rock 'n' Roll's Lull and Revival


Epilogue: "Born in the USA" The Persistent Power of Rock 'n' Roll


Notes


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