How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll
Subtitle: an alternative history of American popular music
By: Elijah Wald.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780195341546
Subjects: Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Amateurs and executants; title: The ragtime life; title: Everybody's doin' it; title: Alexander's got a jazz band now; title: Cake eaters and hooch drinkers; title: The king of jazz; title: The record, the song and the radio; title: Sons of Whiteman; title: Swing that music; title: Technology and its discontents; title: Walking floors and jumpin' jive; title: Selling the American ballad; title: Rock the joint; title: Big records for adults; title: Teen idyll; title: Twisting girls change the world; title: Say you want a revolution.