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All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History)

All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History)

All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in
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All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History)

by Glenn C. Altschuler

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Oxford University Press, August 2003. Hardcover. Used - Good. Hardcover

Synopsis

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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Title
All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History)
Author
Glenn C. Altschuler
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Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
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ISBN 10
0195139437
ISBN 13
9780195139433
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Place of Publication
Cary, North Carolina, U.s.a.
Date Published
August 2003
Pages
240

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