After the Ball - Pop Music from Rag to Rock (Paperback, Main)

First published in 1972, Ian Whitcomb's After the Ball is an exuberant account of the origins and explosion of popular music, informed by the author's store of experience in the field as a pop sensation of The Sixties. 'Brash, learned, funny and perspicacious.... The author of this free-wheeling, diverting history was a student at Trinity College, Dublin, when he created a rock hit 'You Turn Me On,' and experienced a brief, bewildering season as a touring rock celebrity. This book... is his effort to explain that experience to himself, and, well-educated man that he is, he goes all the way back to the first pop bestseller (in sheet music, of course), 'After The Ball,' and all the way forward to the 1960s.' New Yorker 'One of the best books on popular music to come along in the last few years.... Whitcomb's own involvement with music constantly surfaces to make the book both revealing and highly enjoyable.' Seattle Times

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Ian Whitcomb
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	330
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-29636-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General Promotions
LSN:	0-571-29636-X
Barcode:	9780571296361

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