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how rock 'n roll changed America

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All shook up

how rock 'n roll changed America

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The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, howrock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race. For instance, the birth of rock coincided with the Civil Rights movement and brought "race music" into many white homes for the first time. Elvis freely credited blacks withoriginating the music he sang and some of the great early rockers were African American, most notably, Little Richard and Chuck Berry...

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All Shook Up
2007, Oxford University Press
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All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History)
October 15, 2004, Oxford University Press, USA
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Cover of: All shook up
All shook up: how rock 'n' roll changed America
2004, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: All shook up
All shook up: how rock 'n roll changed America
2003, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: All Shook Up
All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History)
August 7, 2003, Oxford University Press, USA
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Table of Contents

All shook up : popular music and American culture, 1945-1955
Brown-eyed handsome man : rock 'n roll and race
Great balls of fire : rock 'n roll and sexuality
Yakety yak, don't talk back : rock 'n roll and generational conflict
Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news : rock 'n roll and the pop culture wars
The day the music died : rock 'n roll's lull and revival.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press
Series
Pivotal moments in American history

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Library of Congress
ML 3534 A465 2003, ML3534, ML3534 .A465 2003

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xiv, 226 p. :
Number of pages
226

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Open Library
OL22173633M
Internet Archive
allshookuphowroc0000unse
ISBN 10
0195177495
LCCN
2003001214
OCLC/WorldCat
51518334
Library Thing
135102
Goodreads
417200

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