I Don't Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-472-03512-0
Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Tracking Pop

<P>The 1950s marked a radical transformation in American popular music as the nation drifted away from its love affair with big band swing to embrace the unschooled and unruly new sounds of rock 'n' roll.</P><P>The sudden flood of records from the margins of the music industry left impressions on the pop soundscape that would eventually reshape long-established listening habits and expectations, as well as conventions of songwriting, performance, and recording. When Elvis Presley claimed, ""I don't sound like nobody,"" a year before he made his first commercial record, he unwittingly articulated the era's musical Zeitgeist.</P><P>The central story line of <em>I Don't Sound Like Nobody</em> is change itself. The book's characters include not just performers but engineers, producers, songwriters, label owners, radio personalities, and fans---all of them key players in the decade's musical transformation.</P><P>Written in engaging, accessible prose, Albin Zak's <em>I Don't Sound Like Nobody</em> approaches musical and historical issues of the 1950s through the lens of recordings and fashions a compelling story of the birth of a new musical language. The book belongs on the shelf of every modern music aficionado and every scholar of rock 'n' roll.</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zak, Albin

Über Autor(innen)

<DIV></DIV> <P style=""LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"" class=MsoNormal><B>Albin J. Zak III</B> is Professor of Music at the University at Albany, State University of New York, the editor of <I>The Velvet Underground Companion</I>, and the author of <I>The Poetics of Rock: Cutting Tracks, Making Records</I>. He is also a record producer, songwriter, singer, and guitarist.</P>