All Shook Up
How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History)
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Word Count
56,500 words, Guess
Page Count
226 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveallshookuphowroc0000alts
- ISBN-100195139437
- ISBN-139780195139433
- Goodreads2181909
- LibraryThing135102
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- Library of Congress Control Number2003001214
- Better World Books9780195139433
- Open LibraryOL7389382M
Classifications
- LCCML3534.A465 2003
- LCCML3534 .A465 2003
Description
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...
First Sentence
Rock 'n' Roll Fight Hospitalizes Youth, the New York Times announced on April 15, 1957.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Pivotal Moments in American History
Other Editions
- All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History)
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