I don't sound like nobody : remaking music in 1950s America /
Zak, Albin,
I don't sound like nobody : remaking music in 1950s America / Albin J. Zak III. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010. - 1 online resource (x, 308 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations - Tracking pop . - Tracking pop. .
Includes bibliographical references, index, and discography.
Records on the radio -- Shifting currents in the mainstream -- Hustlers and amateurs -- Crossing over -- Surface noise -- "Hail! hail! rock and roll" -- New traditions.
The 1950s marked a radical transformation in American popular music as the nation drifted away from its love affair with big band swing to embrace the unschooled and unruly new sounds of rock 'n' roll. The sudden flood of records from the margins of the music industry left impressions on the pop soundscape that would eventually reshape long-established listening habits and expectations, as well as conventions of songwriting, performance, and recording. When Elvis Presley claimed, "I don't sound like nobody," a year before he made his first commercial record, he unwittingly articulated the era's musical Zeitgeist. The central story line of I Don't Sound Like Nobody is change itself. The book's characters include not just performers but engineers, producers, songwriters, label owners, radio personalities, and fans--all of them key players in the decade's musical transformation [Publisher description]
English.
9780472024544 (electronic bk.) 047202454X (electronic bk.) 1282882961 9781282882966 9786612882968 6612882964
10.3998/mpub.295986
22573/ctt1djdgf9 JSTOR
1900-1999
Music--History and criticism.--United States--20th century
Music trade--United States.
Musique--Industrie--États-Unis.
MUSIC--Genres & Styles--Pop Vocal.
MUSIC--General.
Music
Music trade.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ML200.5 / .Z35 2010eb
781.640973/09045
I don't sound like nobody : remaking music in 1950s America / Albin J. Zak III. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010. - 1 online resource (x, 308 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations - Tracking pop . - Tracking pop. .
Includes bibliographical references, index, and discography.
Records on the radio -- Shifting currents in the mainstream -- Hustlers and amateurs -- Crossing over -- Surface noise -- "Hail! hail! rock and roll" -- New traditions.
The 1950s marked a radical transformation in American popular music as the nation drifted away from its love affair with big band swing to embrace the unschooled and unruly new sounds of rock 'n' roll. The sudden flood of records from the margins of the music industry left impressions on the pop soundscape that would eventually reshape long-established listening habits and expectations, as well as conventions of songwriting, performance, and recording. When Elvis Presley claimed, "I don't sound like nobody," a year before he made his first commercial record, he unwittingly articulated the era's musical Zeitgeist. The central story line of I Don't Sound Like Nobody is change itself. The book's characters include not just performers but engineers, producers, songwriters, label owners, radio personalities, and fans--all of them key players in the decade's musical transformation [Publisher description]
English.
9780472024544 (electronic bk.) 047202454X (electronic bk.) 1282882961 9781282882966 9786612882968 6612882964
10.3998/mpub.295986
22573/ctt1djdgf9 JSTOR
1900-1999
Music--History and criticism.--United States--20th century
Music trade--United States.
Musique--Industrie--États-Unis.
MUSIC--Genres & Styles--Pop Vocal.
MUSIC--General.
Music
Music trade.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ML200.5 / .Z35 2010eb
781.640973/09045