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American Epic - When Music Gave America Her Voice by Independent Scholar Elijah Wald
Category: Music
The companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrating the pioneers and artists of American roots music blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, Native American without which there would be no jazz, rock, country R&B, or hip hop today. Jack White, T. Bone Burne ...Show more
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Independent Scholar Elijah Wald
Category: Music
One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary.On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric ...Show more
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night that Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald
Category: Film
One of the music world’s pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event’s fiftieth anniversary. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electr ...Show more
Escaping the Delta : Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald
Category: Film
The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time yet now celebrated as the greatest ...Show more
How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music by Elijah Wald
Category: Rock & Roll
Overthrowing the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history, Elijah Wald traces the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies—including the role of records, radio, jukeboxes and television—to give a fuller, more balanced account of the broad variety of m ...Show more
The Blues : A Very Short Introduction by Elijah Wald
Category: Rock & Roll | Series: Very Short Introductions
Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It ...Show more
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