How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music by Wald, Elijah published by Oxford University Press, USA () .
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The title is appropriate: This is a provocative book, in all the right ways. It is as an alternative, corrective history of American music that Wald's book is invaluable. It forces us to see that only by studying the good with the bad--and by seeing that the good and bad can't be pulled apart--can we truly grasp the greatness of our cultural legacy.
It's a brave and original work that certainly delivers. There is far too much in these pages to even summarize here. Wald is an economical and lucid writer with an amazing grasp of his subject. I know quite a lot of musical history, and I did not find a single clinker in this symphony of renewal and re-examination. Clearly the product of years of passionate research, it's so rife with references and surprising anecdotes that it's potentially overwhelming, but Wald makes a superlative tour guide-- frank, funny and generous but judicious with his inclusions-- and his book is a beguiling, blasphemous breeze.
An Alternative History of American Popular Music, turns the stock rock-and-roll narratives on their head.
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll by Elijah Wald
Throughout, he makes a compelling case for why the figures most historians have disregarded or footnoted need to be considered in order to understand the totality of American popular music. This is an ideal companion to the plethora of standard histories available. It's hard to imagine any American music buff coming away from this book without a fresh perspective and an overwhelming desire to seek out Paul Whiteman CDs.
One of those rare books that aims to upend received wisdom and actually succeeds. The examples and turns of phrase sometimes make me laugh out loud, and nearly every page overturns another outmoded assumption. Wald just calls it like he sees it and transforms everything as a result. Music, Gender, and Sexuality "This is a ground-breaking book, a muscular revisionist account that will get people thinking quite differently about the history of pop music. I've learned much from it and admire the writing style that is so light on its feet, lucid and elegant.
Popular Music and the Avant Garde "Meticulously researched. Oxford University Press; 1 edition October 1, Language: Print edition purchase must be sold by Amazon. Thousands of books are eligible, including current and former best sellers. Look for the Kindle MatchBook icon on print and Kindle book detail pages of qualifying books.
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Read reviews that mention title wald jazz century musical musicians early ragtime pop blues paul whiteman misleading dance modern radio elijah listen artists fascinating. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Better title would be something like the "social, commercial, and functional history of 20th century popular music" and even that would be a stretch because it peters out by or even The Beatles are in no way a focus. Wald is candid about some of the music he likes, particularly about which Beatle music he likes earlier over later.
His discussion of early jazz repeats the old canard that it was developed by black musicians but that white musicians popularized it p. In fact this approach can almost be considered the If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'. View freely available titles: Book titles OR Journal titles.
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Built on the Johns Hopkins University Campus. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Rather than concentrating on those traditionally favored styles, the book traces the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies--including the role of records, radio, jukeboxes and television --to give a fuller, more balanced account of the broad variety of music that captivated listeners over the course of the twentieth century.
Wald revisits original sources--recordings, period articles, memoirs, and interviews--to highlight how music was actually heard and experienced over the years. And in a refreshing departure from more typical histories, he focuses on the world of working musicians and ordinary listeners rather than stars and specialists. He looks for example at the evolution of jazz as dance music, and rock 'n' roll through the eyes of the screaming, twisting teenage girls who made up the bulk of its early audience.
Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and the Beatles are all here, but Wald also discusses less familiar names like Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, Mitch Miller, Jo Stafford, Frankie Avalon, and the Shirelles, who in some cases were far more popular than those bright stars we all know today, and who more accurately represent the mainstream of their times. Written with verve and style, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll shakes up our staid notions of music history and helps us hear American popular music with new ears.
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll by Elijah Wald | Book review | Books | The Guardian
Elijah Wald is a musician, writer and historian, whose books include Escaping the Delta: Voices of World Music. For more information, please visit www. It nailed me to the wall, not bad for a grand sweeping in-depth exploration of American Music with not one mention of myself. Wald's book is suave, soulful, ebullient and will blow out your speakers. The title is appropriate: This is a provocative book, in all the right ways. It is as an alternative, corrective history of American music that Wald's book is invaluable.
It forces us to see that only by studying the good with the bad--and by seeing that the good and bad can't be pulled apart--can we truly grasp the greatness of our cultural legacy.
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It's a brave and original work that certainly delivers.