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Before Elvis - The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll (Hardcover, New)
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Before Elvis - The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll (Hardcover, New)
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An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The
Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll 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, Before Elvis 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 unique 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. In Before Elvis, Birnbaum daringly argues
a more complicated history of 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. Written in an easy style, Before Elvis presents a
bold argument about rock's origins and required reading for fans
and scholars of rock 'n' roll history.
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