Music Wars
Subtitle: Money, Politics, and Race in the Construction of Rock and Roll Culture, 1940-1960
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781498575874
Subjects: Music trade; Popular music
Description: This study examines the mid-twentieth-century evolution of popular music into a cultural movement in the United States. The author argues that a series of disputes in the music industry led to the assertion of music's place in promoting core national values.