Revolutions in American Music by Michael Broyles (Hardback Book)

Name: Revolutions in American Music by Michael Broyles (Hardback Book)
Brand: WW Norton & Co

WW Norton & Co

Michael Broyles shows how three key decades\u2014the 1840s, the 1920s and the 1950s\u2014shaped America\u2019s musical future. In each, new styles of music combined with emerging technologies, from the locomotive to the transistor radio, to have lasting impact on our cultural landscape. All too often, these new developments revealed racial fault lines running through the business of music in an echo of American society as a whole. Through the music of each decade we see the social, cultural and political fabric of the time. A variety of characters serve as focal points for each chapter, including the original Jim Crow, a colourful Hungarian dancing master named Gabriel De Korponay, \u201CEmpress of the Blues\u201D Bessie Smith, and the singer Johnnie Ray, whom Tony Bennett called \u201Cthe father of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.\u201D\n\nRevolutions in American Music\nThree Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available wi;