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Machers and Rockers: Chess Records and the Business of Rock & Roll
by Rich Cohen
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- ISBN 10
- 039305280X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393052800
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New. A tour-de-force history of Jews, blues, and the birth of a new industry. On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants, one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters electrified the blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it. Soon Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and Chess Records captured that, too. Rock & roll had arrived, and an industry was born. In a book as vibrantly and exuberantly written as the music and people it portrays, Rich Cohen tells the engrossing story of how Leonard Chess, with the other record men, made this new sound into a multi-billion-dollar business aggressively acquiring artists, hard-selling distributors, riding the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation. Full of absorbing lore and animated by a deep love for popular music, Machers and Rockers is a smash hit.
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- Bookseller
- The Saint Bookstore (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A9780393052800
- Title
- Machers and Rockers: Chess Records and the Business of Rock & Roll
- Author
- Rich Cohen
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 039305280X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393052800
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- September 30, 2004
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