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The Record Men - The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll (Paperback)
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The Record Men - The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll (Paperback)
Series: Enterprise, 0
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List price R491
Loot Price R442
Discovery Miles 4 420
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On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants; one
a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from
Mississippi; met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy
Waters electrified the blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it. Soon
Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and
Chess Records captured that, too. Rock & roll had arrived, and
an industry was born. In a book as vibrantly and exuberantly
written as the music and people it portrays, Rich Cohen tells the
engrossing story of how Leonard Chess, with the other record men,
made this new sound into a multi-billion-dollar business;
aggressively acquiring artists, hard-selling distributors, riding
the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation.
Originally published in hardcover as Machers and Rockers. About the
series: Enterprise pairs distinguished writers with stories of the
economic forces that have shaped the modern worlds; the
institutions, the entrepreneurs, the ideas. Enterprise introduces a
new genre; the business book as literature.
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