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on the world of working musicians and ordinary listeners rather
than stars and specialists. He looks at the evolution of jazz as
dance music, and rock 'n' roll through the eyes of the
screaming,...
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Overthrowing the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock
history, Elijah Wald 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 variety of music that captivated
listeners over the course of the twentieth century. Wald revisits
original sources-recordings, period articles, memoirs, and
interviews-to highlight how music was actually heard and
experienced over the years. In a refreshing departure from more
typical histories, he focuses on the world of working musicians and
ordinary listeners rather than stars and specialists. He looks at
the evolution of jazz as dance music, and rock 'n' roll through the
eyes of the screaming, twisting teenage girls who made up the bulk
of its early audience.Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra,
Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and the Beatles are all here, but Wald
also discusses less familiar names like Paul Whiteman, Guy
Lombardo, Mitch Miller, Jo Stafford, Frankie Avalon, and the
Shirelles, who in some cases were far more popular than those
bright stars we all know today, and who more accurately represent
the mainstream of their times. "Wald's book is suave, soulful,
ebullient and will blow out your speakers." -Tom Waits "Wald is a
meticulous researcher, a graceful writer and a committed
contrarian...An impressive accomplishment." -Peter Keepnews, New
York Times Book Review "One of those rare books that aims to upend
received wisdom and actually succeeds." -Kirkus Reviews "It is as
an alternative, corrective history of American music that Wald's
book is invaluable. It forces us to see that only by studying the
good with the bad-and by seeing that the good and bad can't be
pulled apart-can we truly grasp the greatness of our cultural
legacy." -Malcolm Jones, Newsweek "Wald wears his scholarship
lightly, but his ideas and insights are substantial...The
attention-grabbing title, for all its counterintuitive appeal,
gives scant indication of the book's ambitions and achievements."
-David Suisman, The Sixties
