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Title: All Shook Up: How Rock 'N' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History) by Glenn C. Altschuler ISBN: 0-19-513943-7 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good read
Comment: A fine and compelling read, even if the author fails to nail down the premise in the subtitle. One or two factual errors don't detract from the overall fascinating story of the rise of rock and roll in the mid-1950s and the payola scandals of the late 1950s. Recommended.
Rating: 3
Summary: A big part left out:
Comment: I just finished reading, "All Shook Up." Although some of Altschuler's sociological themes are very interesting, particularly those dealing with the lingering effects of rock and roll on white America, his discussions of the formative years of rock and roll and the seminal crosssover influences are vey weak, and from my perspective, inaccurate and superficial. Altschuler would like the reader to believe that it was primarily big name individuals (Presley, Berry, Boone, Nelson, etc.) who were the most influential in bringing rock and roll to the general culture. Although individual musicians played an important role in the evolution of rock and roll, it was the early rhythm and blues and doo wop groups that provided the most important and earliest crossover influences. There are many other books dealing with the early influence of such groups, but in this book, they are given relatively little attention compared to individual singers. Also, having grown up in the forties and fifties in Brooklyn, New York, my recollections are quite different from the accounting presented in this book. By the time Presley, Berry and other individuals mentioned in this book arrived on the scene, the crossover process was well underway. What happened before Presley, etc. is a critical part of the historical record and warrants much more attention than is presented in this book. In reading this book, I had the same feeling that I have had visiting the Rock and Roll of Fame - the creative and historical influences of rock and roll on our culture are lost, relatively speaking, to name recognition occurring several generations down the road.
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Title: A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen ISBN: 0375407502 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John E. Ferling ISBN: 0195159241 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties by J. Hoberman ISBN: 1565847636 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: American Capitalism, 1945-2000: Continuity and Change from Mass Production to the Information Society by Wyatt C. Wells ISBN: 1566635373 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Unsung Heroes of Rock 'N' Roll: The Birth of Rock in the Wild Years Before Elvis by Nick Tosches ISBN: 0306808919 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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