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The 1950s' most wanted : the top 10 book of rock & roll rebels, Cold War crises, and all-American oddities /
Journey back fifty years to explore the decade of baby boomers, the Red scare, and the birth of rock and roll with Robert Rodriguez's The 1950s' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All-American Oddities . America was revving its engines when the fif...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Potomac Books,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; This Could Be the Start of Something Big: Everyday things that started in the fifties; Take Me to Your Leader: The powers that were; Done Got Hip to Your Jive: Some fifties' vernacular; Put Your Glad Rags On: 10 fifties fashions; Better Led than Red: 10 fifties fads; Oh, Baby, That's What I Like!: 10 things we ate; Who Wrote the Book?: 10 publishing milestones; Let's Go for a Ride: 10 cars that made the fifties roll; Elvis Has Entered the Building: 10 milestones in the life of Tupelo's finest
- Music! Music! Music!: Stories behind the fifties hitsSerendipity Doo-Wop: The rules of the game; B-sides, This: Some notable flip sides; Rock & Roll Is Here to Stay-Not!: 10 indicators of the first wave's demise; Somewhere There's Music: 10 unlikely recording artists; I'm Ready for My Close-Up: 10 fifties film debuts; The Next Film You See: 10 cinematic oddities; YOU!!! Are a Blabbermouth!!!!: 10 Hollywood rats; Hello, Norma Jeane: A decade in the life of Marilyn Monroe; You Can Say That Again: Fifties movie quotes for our time; And Now, a Word from Our Sponsors: 10 celebrity shills
- I Don't Remember Mama: 10 once popular, now forgotten hit TV showsI Coulda Been a Contender: 10 proposed fifties television shows; Because We Like You: Kids' television in the fifties; Fun for a Girl and a Boy: A fifties toy box; Now Here's Something We Hope You Really Like: 10 fifties cartoons; Ain't That a Shame: Discredited urban legends of the fifties; You Can't Catch Me: 10 crimes and criminals of the decade; Fasten Your Seatbelts-It's Going to Be a Bumpy Night: 10 fifties disasters; The Whole Town's Talking: Scandalous behavior in the fifties
- Once I Had a Secret Love: 10 bi- or gay fifties celebritiesVaya con Dios: Some final words from the dear departed; See You Later, Alligator: Celebrity deaths; The Signpost up Ahead: What 10 future celebrities were up to in the fifties; It Doesn't Matter Anymore: 10 familiar things that came to an end; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; About the Author