Wald, Elijah - How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

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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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Amateurs and Executants
2. The Ragtime Life
3. Everybody's Doin' It
4. Alexander's Got a Jazz Band Now
5. Cake Eaters and Hooch Drinkers
6. The King of Jazz
7. The Record, the Song and the Radio
8. Sons of Whiteman
9. Swing that Music
10. Technology and Its Discontents
11. Walking Floors and Jumpin' Jive
12. Selling the American Ballad
13. Rock the Joint
14. Big Records for Adults
15. Teen Idyll
16. Twisting Girls Change the World
17. Say You Want a RevolutionEL
Epilogue: The Rock Blot and the Disco Diagram
Bibliography
Index