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Graveyard Groove: The Haunted History of Monster Music from "Monster Mash" to Horror Punk
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ISBN10: 1725917467
ISBN13: 9781725917460
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 26 2018
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781725917460
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 26 2018
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
In the mid-1950s, a new genre of novelty music emerged that mixed humor and horror. The result: Monster Music! Suddenly, jukeboxes were filled with songs about Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Man, creatures from outer space and a multitude of supernatural terrors. The genre reached its peak in 1962 with Bobby Boris Pickett's smash Monster Mash, but there are many more songs worthy of rediscovery -- and Monster Music still lives on today, thanks to the influence of punk pioneers like The Cramps and The Misfits. Here is the complete, untold story of Monster Music -- the genre that refused to die!
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