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All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America

All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America

All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America
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All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America

by Altschuler, Glenn C

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New York: Oxford University Press. Nearly fine copy. 2003. Later prt.. softcover. 8vo, 226 pp., Pivotal Moments in American History series. .

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The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, howrock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race. For instance, the birth of rock coincided with the Civil Rights movement and brought "race music" into many white homes for the first time. Elvis freely credited blacks withoriginating the music he sang and some of the great early rockers were African American, most notably, Little Richard and Chuck Berry...

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Title
All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America
Author
Altschuler, Glenn C
Illustrator
Illus. with photos
Format/Binding
Softcover
Book Condition
Used - Nearly fine copy
Edition
Later prt.
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0195177495
ISBN 13
9780195177497
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2003
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