How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll: an alternative history of American popular music

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Amateurs and Executants 2. The Ragtime Life 3. Everybody's Doin' It 4. Alexander's Got a Jazz Band Now 5. Cake Eaters and Hooch Drinkers 6. The King of Jazz 7. The Record, the Song and the Radio 8. Sons of Whiteman 9. Swing that Music 10. Technology and Its Discontents 11. Walking Floors and Jumpin' Jive 12. Selling the American Ballad 13. Rock the Joint 14. Big Records for Adults 15. Teen Idyll 16. Twisting Girls Change the World 17. Say You Want a RevolutionEL Epilogue: The Rock Blot and the Disco Diagram Bibliography Index