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Sharkey, Elizabeth

 
9781680534450: Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World
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ISBN 10 : 1680534459 ISBN 13 : 9781680534450
Editeur : Academica Press, 2022

Synopsis

Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World challenges the origins of 'Beatlemania' by travelling deep into Britain's history to trace the events that led to Britain's twentieth century musical explosion. With rigorous in-depth research, new discoveries and original insights Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World completely reframes the history of British pop music and argues that The Beatles' arrival that so surprised the world really shouldn't have been a surprise at all.


The story goes that by copying blues and rock and roll Britain suddenly started making spectacularly great music out of nowhere, like some clever, quick-learning cultural satellite of America. But Britain's music revolution didn't happen from a standing start. Far from it. For something so dazzling and multifaceted the reasons for its sudden appearance lie deeper than those legendary deliveries of blues records into Liverpool's port and the legacy of music hall. From the Celts and the Quakers, to Ira Aldridge, Paul Robeson and the enduring power of British balladry, Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World breaks out of pop history's twentieth century confines and uncovers events that encouraged it to be, in all its glorious, crazy, luminous, joyous, profound, melancholic, ferocious, anarchic, witty, smart and wonderful ways.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Sharkey is an actress and voice over artist, and lives in North London. Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World is her debut book.

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Éditeur
Academica Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1680534459
ISBN 13 
9781680534450
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
330
Coordonnées du fabricant
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