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Devil's music, holy rollers and hillbillies : how America gave birth to rock and roll
- Title
- Devil's music, holy rollers and hillbillies : how America gave birth to rock and roll / James A. Cosby.
- Author
- Cosby, James A.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- viii, 254 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Rock music today is universal and its popular history is well known. Yet few know how and why it really came about. Taking a fresh look at events long overlooked or misunderstood, this book tells how some of the most disenfranchised people in a free and prosperous nation strove to make themselves heard--and changed the world"--
- Subjects
- Popular music
- Popular music > Social aspects
- Rock music
- History
- Popular music > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century
- Popular music > United States > 1951-1960 > History and criticism
- To 1999
- United States
- Rock music > United States > To 1961 > History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243)and index.
- Contents
- "What Is Wrong with Us?" -- Boom Time: and Cracks in the Foundation -- The Oral Tradition -- Being Black -- The Early Blues -- The Delta and the Devil: and Freedom -- The American Hillbilly and Country Music -- A Prelude and a Melting Pot -- The Church and Rock -- Memphis, Sun, and the Dawn of Rock -- Mr. Presley -- Mr. Berry and the First Wave of Rock -- A Changed World.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1010
- ISBN
- 9781476662299
- 1476662290
- LCCN
- 2016019908
- OCLC
- 934885191
- Author
- Cosby, James A.
- Title
- Devil's music, holy rollers and hillbillies : how America gave birth to rock and roll / James A. Cosby.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243)and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1010