Devil's music, holy rollers and hillbillies
Subtitle: how America gave birth to rock and roll
By: James A. Cosby
Publisher: McFarland & Company; McFarland
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781476662299
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Rock music; History; Popular music; History and criticism
Other titles: How America gave birth to rock and roll
Description: "Rock music today is universal and its popular history is well known. Yet few know how and why it really came about. Taking a fresh look at events long overlooked or misunderstood, this book tells how some of the most disenfranchised people in a free and prosperous nation strove to make themselves heard--and changed the world"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241), videography (pages 243), web resources (pages 242-243), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Rock in the free world; title: "What is wrong with us?"; title: Boom time... and cracks in the foundation; title: The oral tradition; title: Being Black; title: The early blues; title: The Delta and the devil... and freedom; title: The American hillbilly and country music; title: A prelude and a melting pot; title: The church and rock; title: Memphis, Sun, and the dawn of rock; title: Mr. Presley; title: Mr. Berry and the first wave of rock; title: A changed world.