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I don't sound like nobody : remaking music in 1950s America /
The 1950s marked a radical transformation in American popular music as the nation drifted away from its love affair with big band swing to embrace the unschooled and unruly new sounds of rock 'n' roll. The sudden flood of records from the margins of the music industry left impressions on t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Tracking pop.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The 1950s marked a radical transformation in American popular music as the nation drifted away from its love affair with big band swing to embrace the unschooled and unruly new sounds of rock 'n' roll. The sudden flood of records from the margins of the music industry left impressions on the pop soundscape that would eventually reshape long-established listening habits and expectations, as well as conventions of songwriting, performance, and recording. When Elvis Presley claimed, "I don't sound like nobody," a year before he made his first commercial record, he unwittingly articulated the era's musical Zeitgeist. The central story line of I Don't Sound Like Nobody is change itself. The book's characters include not just performers but engineers, producers, songwriters, label owners, radio personalities, and fans--all of them key players in the decade's musical transformation [Publisher description] |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 308 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references, index, and discography. |
| ISBN: | 9780472024544 047202454X 1282882961 9781282882966 9786612882968 6612882964 |