I don't sound like nobody : remaking music in 1950s America / Albin J. Zak III.

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Zak, Albin [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780472024544
047202454X
1282882961
9781282882966
9786612882968
6612882964

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: I don't sound like nobody.DDC classification:

781.640973/09045 22

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ML200.5 .Z35 2010eb

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Contents:

Records on the radio -- Shifting currents in the mainstream -- Hustlers and amateurs -- Crossing over -- Surface noise -- "Hail! hail! rock and roll" -- New traditions.

Summary: 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]

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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.

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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]

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