Review of Elijah Wald, How The Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music

Authors

  • Bruce Johnson Macquarie University, Sydney Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v3i2.203

Keywords:

Jazz History

Abstract

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 336 pp.

References

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Cashman, Sean Dennis (1989) America in the Twenties and Thirties: The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. New York and London: New York University Press.

Johnson, Bruce (2000) The Inaudible Music: Jazz, Gender and Australian Modernity. Sydney: Currency Press.

Salmi, Hannu (2005) Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces: Reception, Enthusiasm, Cult. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.

Sudhalter, Richard (2001) Lost Chords: White Musicians and their Contribution to Jazz 1915–1945. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

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Published

2010-09-03

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Reviews

How to Cite

Johnson, B. (2010). Review of Elijah Wald, How The Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music. Jazz Research Journal, 3(2), 203-211. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v3i2.203