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Auteur(s) : Birnbaum, Larry (19..-....)
Titre(s) : Before Elvis [Texte imprimé] : the prehistory of rock 'n' roll / Larry Birnbaum
Publication : Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2013
Description matérielle : x, 463 p. ; 23 cm
Comprend : That's All Right. A white man sounds black ; Rock 'n' roll arrives ; The meaning of
rock ; The revolution that wasn't. ; The Train Kept A-Rollin'. Stroll on ; Cow-cow
boogie ; Johnny B. Goode ; Rolling on. ; One O' Them Things! Big Bill ; Handy vs.
Morton ; Birth of the blues ; Recording the blues ; Roots of the blues ; Africa, Britain,
and vaudeville. ; The Rocks. The walking bass ; A dash of hokum ; Big band boogie
; Boogie-woogie fever ; Coda. ; The Jumpin' Jive. Jump jazz ; The backbeat and the
Jitterbug ; Jug bands and hokum ; Scat, jive, and harmony signing ; Big bands and
shuffle rhythms ; The blues-jazz nexus ; From hokum to rhythm-and-blues ; Jive ;
Big band jump ; Jum, jive, an' wail. ; Get With It. Country origins ; Early country
recordings ; Blues and hokum ; Western swing ; Hillbilly boogie ; Country and R毠 ;
Good Rockin' Tonight. R欒s born ; The door opens ; Horn honkers ; Strin slingers ;
Shouters ; Rhythm-and-blues women ; Doo- wop ; The crescent city. ; Rock Love. Blue-eyed
R欋 Rock stars ; Mystery women ; Vocal groups ; Caribbean rhythms.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
This work surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence
of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, it offers a far broader
and deeper analysis of the influences on rock music. Dispelling common misconceptions,
it examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues,
detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock
'n' roll appeared. This study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions
of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence
of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians
treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution
provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the
white appropriation of music till then played only by and for black audiences. Here
the author argues a more complicated history and rock's evolution from a heady mix
of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and rhythm-and-blues,
a melange that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues
and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into
rhythm-and-blues. This work presents a bold argument about rock's origins
Sujet(s) : Rock (musique) -- États-Unis
Genre ou forme : Musique populaire -- États-Unis -- 1945-1970
Indice(s) Dewey :
781.640 9730904 (23e éd.) = Musique populaire occidentale - États-Unis - 1900-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780810886384 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0810886383 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780810886285 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0810886286 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9780810886292 (ebook). - ISBN 0810886294 (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43569130c
Notice n° :
FRBNF43569130
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