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Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds

Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds

Broyles, Michael

Hardcover

General MusicGeneral United States HistoryMusic Reference

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 0393634205
ISBN13: 9780393634204
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Feb 20 2024
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.59
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.29 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

How did a European social dance craze become part of an American presidential election? Why did the recording industry become racially divided? Where did rock 'n' roll really come from? And how do all these things continue to reverberate in today's world?

In Revolutions in American Music, award-winning author Michael Broyles shows the surprising ways in which three key decades--the 1840s, the 1920s, and the 1950s--shaped America's musical future. Drawing connections between new styles of music like the minstrel show, jazz, and rock 'n' roll, and emerging technologies like the locomotive, the first music recordings, and the transistor radio, Broyles argues that these decades fundamentally remade our cultural landscape in enduring ways. At the same time, these connections revealed racial fault lines running through the business of music, in an echo of American society as a whole.

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