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Book

The history of rock 'n' roll in ten songs

Call Number

  • 782.42166 M3223 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

Physical Description

[xii], 307 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

Selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 that embody rock and roll as a thing in itself--in the story each song tells, inhabits, and creates in its legacy.

Contents

  • Shake some action: 1976
  • Transmission: 2007/1979/2010
  • In the still of the nite: 1956/1959/2010
  • All I could do was cry: 2013/1960/ 2008
  • Crying, waiting, hoping: 1959/1969
  • Another history of rock 'n' roll
  • Money (that's what I want): 1959/1963 and Money changes everything: 1978/1983/2008/2005
  • This magic moment: 2007/1959
  • Guitar drag: 2006/2000
  • To know him is to love him: 1958/2006.

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