Showing posts with label How The Beatles Destroyed Rock and Roll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How The Beatles Destroyed Rock and Roll. Show all posts
Sunday, July 12, 2009
NY Times Review of How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n Roll
Unlike so many of the NY Times Sunday book reviewers this one, by a NY Times music staff writer, is fair and balanced -- and it is positive too, as well as fun to read. The writer isn't grinding any axes on either his own or the paper's neocon editors' behalf. But then, this is only a history of popular music, not about, say, a city the neocons have done their best to destroy.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Elijah Wald Reading Tonight in New York
From How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n Roll.
New York:
Monday, June 22, 7 p.m.
BookCourt
163 Court St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-875-3677
http://www.bookcourt.org/
New York:
Monday, June 22, 7 p.m.
BookCourt
163 Court St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-875-3677
http://www.bookcourt.org/
Saturday, May 23, 2009
"How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music
(Oxford Press) by Elijah Wald is now officially published and available.
You can learn more about the book and Elijah's tour here.
Opinion of this work here in Casa de la Zorra is very, very high. If you have an interest in music and / or the history of this nation, this is a book you need to read.
Elijah describes his book in his own words in this a.m.'s e-mail:
[ "Basically, after writing "Escaping the Delta" it began to bother me that virtually all pop music history has been written by roots, jazz and rock fans--people like me--who tend to take pride in our unique tastes and despise mainstream pop. And we tend to write the history of what we like
rather than the history of what happened. So this is an attempt to give a clearer picture of how
pop music evolved, looking at changing dancestyles, technologies, and the lives of working musicians and regular listeners from the dawn of ragtime to the dawn of disco--with some fun stories to back it all up." ]
This is a summer and fall of music and history books -- very good books -- published by our friends, including Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan), also in June. Not to mention The Year Before the Flood (August)!
You can learn more about the book and Elijah's tour here.
Opinion of this work here in Casa de la Zorra is very, very high. If you have an interest in music and / or the history of this nation, this is a book you need to read.
Elijah describes his book in his own words in this a.m.'s e-mail:
[ "Basically, after writing "Escaping the Delta" it began to bother me that virtually all pop music history has been written by roots, jazz and rock fans--people like me--who tend to take pride in our unique tastes and despise mainstream pop. And we tend to write the history of what we like
rather than the history of what happened. So this is an attempt to give a clearer picture of how
pop music evolved, looking at changing dancestyles, technologies, and the lives of working musicians and regular listeners from the dawn of ragtime to the dawn of disco--with some fun stories to back it all up." ]
This is a summer and fall of music and history books -- very good books -- published by our friends, including Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan), also in June. Not to mention The Year Before the Flood (August)!
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