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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hank Bordowitz |
ISBN: | 0806526319 9780806526317 |
OCLC Number: | 56141967 |
Description: | xix, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Foreword by Dave Marsh -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rock and the voice of post-1950 youth -- 1877-1977 Edison invents the phonograph: recorded music goes from science fiction to big business -- 1936-1937 Robert Johnson makes forty-one recordings in Texas hotel rooms, offices and warehouses -- 1946-55 Les Paul invents the solid-body electric guitar, close miking, the multitrack studio, and a bunch of other stuff -- 1952 American Bandstand -- 1953 Elvis Presley strolls into the Union street Recording Studio in Memphis -- 1954 Alan Freed changes the name of his Moondog's house to The rock and roll show -- 1954 Movie Blackboard Jungle comes out -- 1955-1982 From the transistor radio to the cassette and compact disc -- 1955 Chuck Berry records Maybellene -- 1959 Buddy Holly crashes -- 1963 Beatlemania -- 1965 Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival -- 1966 Paul Williams launches Crawdaddy! magazine -- 1966 Ahmet Ertegun signs Cream -- "Rock and roll" becomes "rock" -- 1967-1969 from Monterey pop to Woodstock to Altamont: Innocence found and lost -- 1977 Sex pistols tour America -- 1981 MTV launches -- 1985 Live aid -- 1991 Nirvana hits #1 with Nevermind -- 1995 MP3, Napster and the end of the world as we know it -- Afterword -- Quotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author. |
Responsibility: | Hank Bordowitz. |
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