
Rock N Roll 39-59
Publisher's Description
Snare drum backbeat plus electric guitar: the simple formula that
launched the rock star, and contemporary teen culture along with
it. Today, rock ‘n’ roll seems to define postwar American culture,
especially in its impact abroad. Though its inception is often
imagined as sudden and seismic, it was, of course, a gradual and
complex transition from boogie-woogie to the stardom of Elvis
Presley and Bill Haley. A thorough survey of rock ‘n’ roll’s bloodline
would even reach back as far as 1939, a time when the electric
guitar’s role was mostly played by piano or saxophone. Rock ‘n’ Roll
39-59 does this, with the assistance of some of the genre’s finest
photographers. Bruce Davidson, Wayne Miller, Robert W. Kelley,
Esther Bubley, Eve Arnold and Ernest C. Withers are all here, amid
a wealth of visual props, including priceless period posters,
records, rare souvenirs, photographs and film stills, and indices
of the movement’s key venues, events, artists, producers and
people. This book describes a lively mess of genres, from boogiewoogie
to blues, gospel, big band jazz, country and, most of all,
rhythm and blues—interbreeding against a backdrop of colossal
social change, and culminating in the rock ‘n’ roll explosion of
the mid-1950s. Conversations between Alain Dominique Perrin
and Gregg Geller.
ISBN: 3865216099
Publisher: Steidl
Hardcover : 432 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 0 x 0 x 0 inches
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Publisher: Steidl
Hardcover : 432 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 0 x 0 x 0 inches