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How The Beatles destroyed rock'n'roll

Hardcover • 2009 • English

How The Beatles destroyed rock'n'roll

By Elijah Wald

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About the book

There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hip hop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock histor...Show more

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9780195341546

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

How The Beatles destroyed rock'n'roll

Format

Hardcover

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