TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zak,Albin
TI  - I don't sound like nobody: remaking music in 1950s America 
T2  - Tracking pop
SN  - 9780472024544
AV  - ML200.5 .Z35 2010eb
U1  - 781.640973/09045 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Music
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Music trade
KW  - Musique
KW  - Industrie
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Genres & Styles
KW  - Pop Vocal
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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