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03953aam a22004214a 4500 001 BBDB48BE744411E3B32AB1E9DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140103010023 008 120808s2013 mdu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012032269 020 $a 0810886286 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780810886285 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0810886383 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780810886384 (cloth : alk. paper) 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a ML3477 $b .B47 2013 082 00 $a 781.640973/0904 $2 23 100 1 $a Birnbaum, Larry. 245 10 $a Before Elvis : $b the prehistory of rock 'n' roll / $c Larry Birnbaum. 260 $a Lanham, Md. : $b Scarecrow Press, $c 2013. 300 $a x, 463 p. ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a That's All Right. A white man sounds black ; Rock 'n' roll arrives ; The meaning of rock ; The revolution that wasn't. -- The Train Kept A-Rollin'. Stroll on ; Cow-cow boogie ; Johnny B. Goode ; Rolling on. -- One O' Them Things! Big Bill ; Handy vs. Morton ; Birth of the blues ; Recording the blues ; Roots of the blues ; Africa, Britain, and vaudeville. -- The Rocks. The walking bass ; A dash of hokum ; Big band boogie ; Boogie-woogie fever ; Coda. -- The Jumpin' Jive. Jump jazz ; The backbeat and the Jitterbug ; Jug bands and hokum ; Scat, jive, and harmony signing ; Big bands and shuffle rhythms ; The blues-jazz nexus ; From hokum to rhythm-and-blues ; Jive ; Big band jump ; Jum, jive, an' wail. -- Get With It. Country origins ; Early country recordings ; Blues and hokum ; Western swing ; Hillbilly boogie ; Country and R&B. -- Good Rockin' Tonight. R&B is born ; The door opens ; Horn honkers ; String slingers ; Shouters ; Rhythm-and-blues women ; Doo- wop ; The crescent city. -- Rock Love. Blue-eyed R&B ; Rock stars ; Mystery women ; Vocal groups ; Caribbean rhythms. 520 $a This work surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, it offers a far broader and deeper analysis of the influences on rock music. Dispelling common misconceptions, it examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock 'n' roll appeared. This study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music till then played only by and for black audiences. Here the author argues a more complicated history and rock's evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and rhythm-and-blues, a melange that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into rhythm-and-blues. This work presents a bold argument about rock's origins. 650 0 $a Popular music $y 1931-1940 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Popular music $y 1941-1950 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Popular music $y 1951-1960 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Popular music $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Rhythm and blues music $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Rock music $y To 1961 $x History and criticism. 941 $a 4 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718091148.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826064325.0 952 $l UXAX826 $d 20150509025405.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20140307010356.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BBDB48BE744411E3B32AB1E9DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search