Wald, Elijah.
Summary: How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 WALWald, Elijah.
Summary: Robert Johnson's story presents a fascinating paradox: Why did this genius of the Delta blues excite so little interest when his records were first released in the 1930s? And how did this brilliant but obscure musician come to be hailed long after his death as the most important artist in early blues and a founding father of rock 'n' roll? Elijah Wald provides the first thorough examination of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, ROBERT WALSummary: Explores contemporary American music through encounters with contemporary musicians who have forged their styles out of the rich musical heritage found along the banks of the Mississippi. The combination of musical diversity and striking continuity found in this remarkable region, which slices through the center of the United States, is reflected by a range of artists including Soul Asylum,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1998
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN RIVVan Ronk, Dave.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN RONK, DAVE VANSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSWilliams, Robert Pete
Contents: Disc 1. My mind wandering around (5:55) ; Cane cut man (5:10) ; My daddy was a hoodoo man (4:42) ; No more sweet potatoes (4:30) ; Poor Bob's blues (3:54) ; Cows love music (4:37) ; Can't yo-yo no more (5:14) ; Shake, shake baby (5:42) ; Lord, I done you wrong (3:10) ; Been mistreated so long (3:52) -- Disc 2. Things all wrong with me (6:42) ; Matchbox blues (5:42) ; Sad news from Korea (4:34)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arhoolie 2004