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Machers and Rockers: Chess Records and the Business of Rock & Roll Hardback - 2004

by Rich Cohen

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Cohen tells the engrossing story of how Leonard Chess made rock and roll into a multibillion-dollar business--aggressively acquiring artists, hard-selling distributors, and riding the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation.

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A tour-de-force history of Jews, blues, and the birth of a new industry. On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants, one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters electrified the blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it. Soon Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and Chess Records captured that, too. Rock & roll had arrived, and an industry was born. In a book as vibrantly and exuberantly written as the music and people it portrays, Rich Cohen tells the engrossing story of how Leonard Chess, with the other record men, made this new sound into a multi-billion-dollar business aggressively acquiring artists, hard-selling distributors, riding the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation. Full of absorbing lore and animated by a deep love for popular music, Machers and Rockers is a smash hit.

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Marshall Chess was laughing it up.

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  • Title Machers and Rockers: Chess Records and the Business of Rock & Roll
  • Author Rich Cohen
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 220
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date 2004-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393052800 / 039305280X
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.8 x 8.6 x 1 in (14.73 x 21.84 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Sound recording executives and producers -, Chess, Leonard
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004011792
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 09/15/2004, Page 190
  • Library Journal, 10/01/2004, Page 82
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/23/2004, Page 50
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