Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243)and index.
Contents:
"What Is Wrong with Us?" -- Boom Time: and Cracks in the Foundation -- The Oral Tradition -- Being Black -- The Early Blues -- The Delta and the Devil: and Freedom -- The American Hillbilly and Country Music -- A Prelude and a Melting Pot -- The Church and Rock -- Memphis, Sun, and the Dawn of Rock -- Mr. Presley -- Mr. Berry and the First Wave of Rock -- A Changed World.
Summary:
"Rock music today is universal and its popular history is well known. Yet few know how and why it really came about. Taking a fresh look at events long overlooked or misunderstood, this book tells how some of the most disenfranchised people in a free and prosperous nation strove to make themselves heard--and changed the world"-- Provided by publisher.
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