The history of rock & roll Volume one, 1920-1963 /
"Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this ... narrative--from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent reco...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Flatiron Books,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- How to use this book
- In the beginning
- The record industry : race and country
- Independence
- Blues, birds, and a Moondog
- Black voices in the heartland
- 1953-1954 : the stars align
- 1955 : rock and roll is born... maybe
- 1956 : into the big time
- Interlude in another land
- 1957 : annus mirabilis 1
- 1958 : hoodlum friends outside
- 1959 : death and soul
- 1960 : oldies, newies, and payola
- 1961 : let's twist again
- 1962 : teen pan alley
- Second interlude in another land
- Third interlude : England and Germany
- 1963 : the end of the world.
