That Old Time Rock & Roll: A Chronicle of an Era, 1954-1963 - Softcover

Aquila, Richard

9780028700823: That Old Time Rock & Roll: A Chronicle of an Era, 1954-1963

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0028700821 ISBN 13: 9780028700823

Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books, 1989

Traces the history of rock and roll music from the Chords to the Beatles, identifies artists of the period, and lists the top songs of each year

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From the huge success of the Chords' "Sh-Boom" to the arrival of the Beatles a decade later, rock 'n' roll influenced an entire generation of young Americans. Combining popular culture and social history with a sourcebook of lists and a biographical dictionary. That Old-Time Rock & Roll recreates the fun and excitement of rock's first decade and shows how the music reflected American life and thought in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Richard Aquila provides an overview of the birth and growth of this pivotal genre and demonstrates early rock's links to both the youth culture and the dominant culture of the Eisenhower/Kennedy era. Year-by-year timelines and a photo essay place the music in historical perspective by illustrating the decade's top news stories, movies, TV shows, fads, and lifestyles. A concise biographical dictionary details all the performers who made the charts between 1954 and 1963, along with the label and chart position of each hit.

Both a history of the music and a history of the times, That Old-Time Rock & Roll is an outstanding source of information about the charter members of the baby-boom generation. In a new introduction, Aquila discusses how his long-time interest in rock 'n' roll came to fruition and surveys the progress of rock 'n' roll scholarship since his book's original publication.

Review:

"Those looking for more than a superficial study of rock 'n' roll and the society that spawned it ... will find this book to their liking.... [A] perfect bridge between the puff that often characterizes studies of the period and the scholarly tomes that can bore all but the dedicated student of the era".

-- Chattanooga Times

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