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Electric Shock - From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop Music (Paperback)
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Electric Shock - From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop Music (Paperback)
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Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of
popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the
digital age, from the first pop superstars of the twentieth century
to the omnipresence of music in our lives, in hit singles,
ringtones and on Spotify. Over that time, popular music has
transformed the world in which we live. Its rhythms have influenced
how we walk down the street, how we face ourselves in the mirror,
and how we handle the outside world in our daily conversations and
encounters. It has influenced our morals and social mores; it has
transformed our attitudes towards race and gender, religion and
politics. From the beginning of recording, when a musical
performance could be preserved for the first time, to the digital
age, when all of recorded music is only a mouse-click away; from
the straitlaced ballads of the Victorian era and the 'coon songs'
that shocked America in the early twentieth century to gangsta rap,
death metal and the multiple strands of modern dance music: Peter
Doggett takes us on a rollercoaster ride through the history of
music. Within a narrative full of anecdotes and characters,
Electric Shock mixes musical critique with wider social and
cultural history and shows how revolutionary changes in technology
have turned popular music into the lifeblood of the modern world.
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