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Love for sale : pop music in America
- Title
- Love for sale : pop music in America / David Hajdu.
- Author
- Hajdu, David
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- 307 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- From the age of song sheets in the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era of digital streaming, pop music has been our most influential laboratory for social and aesthetic experimentation, changing the world three minutes at a time. Hajdu shows how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies of love and sex to teenagers. Exhaustively researched and rich with fresh insights, Love for Sale details pop music from Eva Tanguay, who upended Victorian conceptions of feminine propriety, to Blondie, the scandal of disco; from Bessie Smith and the 'blues queens' of the 1920s to Jimmie Rodgers, a former blackface minstrel performer who created the country music sound. At every turn, Hajdu surprises and challenges readers to think about our most familiar art in unexpected ways. --
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-288) and index.
- Contents
- The sheet music era: the zenith of the popular music craze -- The rise of records : whispering -- The Cotton Club : jungle nights in Harlem -- The charts : make-believe island -- Going west : Hollywood barn dance -- Rock and roll : they went ca-raaaaazy for it! -- The transistor : mine completely -- Singers and songwriters : potty about Dylan -- The album : a pair of twenty-minute things -- Punk versus disco : who needs love? -- Video : moonwalkers -- Hip-hop : beats want to be free -- Digitization : the immaterial world -- Coda.
- Call Number
- JNE 16-153
- ISBN
- 9780374170530
- 0374170533
- LCCN
- 2016017769
- OCLC
- 947041885
- Author
- Hajdu, David, author.
- Title
- Love for sale : pop music in America / David Hajdu.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-288) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JNE 16-153