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 filt...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford Univ. Press,
©2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780199712137 0199712131 1282125303 9781282125308 9780199753567 0199753563 9786612125300 6612125306 |