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Rock 'n' film : cinema's dance with popular music /

In the mid-1950s, rock 'n' roll amalgamated earlier black and white working-class musical traditions to displace the Great American Songbook's hegemony over Anglophone popular music. At the same time, the classic musical was both displaced and re-created in a new form of film: the roc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: James, David E., 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In the mid-1950s, rock 'n' roll amalgamated earlier black and white working-class musical traditions to displace the Great American Songbook's hegemony over Anglophone popular music. At the same time, the classic musical was both displaced and re-created in a new form of film: the rock 'n' roll musical. For the next two decades, the genre's evolution in the United States and the United Kingdom accompanied and sustained the emergence, flowering, and decay of a counterculture. Cinema was second only to records in the production of the new cultural gestalt that the music generated.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199387618
0199387613
9780199387632
019938763X