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How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll An Alternative History of American Popular Music

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ISBN-10: 019975697X

ISBN-13: 9780199756971

Edition: 2011

Authors: Elijah Wald

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Elijah Wald is a musician who teaches blues history at UCLA. His books include How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll, Global Minstrels, and Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
SellingtheAmericanBallad
Rock the Joint
BigRecordsforAdults
Teen Idyll
Twisting Girls Change the World
Say You Want a Revolution
Epilogue: The Rock Blot and the Disco Diagram
Notes
Bibliography
Index