How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll
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Publisher : OUP USA
Total Pages : 339
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ISBN-10 : 9780199756971
ISBN-13 : 019975697X
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Download or read book How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll written by Elijah Wald and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar cliches of jazz and rock, looks at what people were playing, hearing and dancing to over the course of the 20th century, using a wealth of original research, curious quotations, and an irreverent fascination with the oft-despised commercial mainstream.


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