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I Don't Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America (Tracking Pop)
Zak, Albin, III
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Description for I Don't Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America (Tracking Pop)
Hardcover. A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history Series: Tracking Pop. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
The 1950s marked a radical transformation in American popular music as the nation drifted away from its love affair with big band swing to embrace the unschooled and unruly new sounds of rock 'n' roll. The sudden flood of records from the margins of the music industry left impressions on the pop soundscape that would eventually reshape long-established listening habits and expectations, as well as conventions of songwriting, performance, and recording. When Elvis Presley claimed, ""I don't sound like nobody,"" a year before he made his first commercial record, he unwittingly articulated the era's musical Zeitgeist. The central story line ... Read more
The 1950s marked a radical transformation in American popular music as the nation drifted away from its love affair with big band swing to embrace the unschooled and unruly new sounds of rock 'n' roll. The sudden flood of records from the margins of the music industry left impressions on the pop soundscape that would eventually reshape long-established listening habits and expectations, as well as conventions of songwriting, performance, and recording. When Elvis Presley claimed, ""I don't sound like nobody,"" a year before he made his first commercial record, he unwittingly articulated the era's musical Zeitgeist. The central story line ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472116379
SKU
V9780472116379
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