Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954-1984
From 1954 to 1984, the media made rock n’ roll an international language. In this era of rapidly changing technology, styles and culture changed dramatically, too. In the 1950s, wild-eyed Southern boys burst into national consciousness on 45 rpm records, and then 1960s British rockers made the transition from 45s to LPs. By the 1970s, rockers were competing with television, and soon MTV made obsolete the music-only formats that had first popularized rock n’ roll.
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Contents
Preface
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1 |
Some Principles
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7 |
Bing the Chairman and the King
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15 |
19541959
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37 |
SocioEthnic Origins of
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51 |
The Beginnings of Secularization
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57 |
Cover Records
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63 |
19591964
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79 |
Anxious Beatles
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195 |
MidAtlantic Stones
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202 |
Yes But What About AM Radio?
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214 |
The Erotic Politicians of the Woodstock
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221 |
A Few Good Words for the Seventies
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235 |
Tradition and the Individual Apple Pie
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243 |
Rock Starts to Compete With Television
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252 |
A New Jersey Outlaw
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267 |
Detroit Rises for the First Time
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90 |
California Rises for the First Time Too
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101 |
SECTION III 19641974
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109 |
On Beatlemania
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132 |
Dylans Words in Freedom
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144 |
High Culture as Popular Culture
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173 |
Sargeant Pepper An Electric Performance
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186 |
High Culture as Popular Culture II
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278 |
How the Other Half Rocks
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286 |
Disco A New Beginning
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295 |
The Other Side of Disco Punk
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307 |
A Channel of Ones Own Michael Jackson and MTV
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316 |
CODA
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331 |
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Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954-1984 James M. Curtis No preview available - 1987 |
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