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Oct 1, 2011 · "Elijah Wald's provocative, meticulously researched new book, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music, turns the stock rock-and-roll narratives on their head."--Very Short List
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Clickbait title aside, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll is a history of American popular music stripped of the familiar clichés of jazz and rock history. Tracing the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies, rather than applying modern standards and genre categories, it gives a fuller, more ...
Sep 28, 2009 · How The Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll. Pop historian’s latest bombshell essential despite its flaws. In 2004, music writer Elijah Wald released Escaping The Delta: Robert Johnson and the ...
Jun 11, 2009 · Wald explains that the Beatles did in fact destroy rock ‘n’ roll by creating a schism between white and black music that’s only grown farther apart in the decades since the dawn of ...
Jun 1, 2009 · How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music provides a meticulously detailed yet rip-roaring history of American popular music. It's rare to read something that so thoroughly upends everything you thought you knew, but Elijah Wald did it in 254 pages.
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Jul 10, 2009 · HOW THE BEATLES DESTROYED ROCK ’N’ ROLL. An Alternative History of American Popular Music. By Elijah Wald. Illustrated. 323 pp. Oxford University Press. $24.95
Jun 18, 2009 · In spite of its bomb-throwing title, How The Beatles Destroyed Rock ’N’ Roll: An Alternative History Of American Popular Music isn’t out to desecrate anyone.
