Chapter 1 The 1900s, The Birth of the Recording Industry Chapter 2 The 1910s, Stage, Sheet Music, and Disc: A New Synergy Chapter 3 The 1920s, The Jazz Age Chapter 4, The 1930s Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Chapter 5 War at Home, War Abroad Chapter 6 The 1950s, All Shook Up Chapter 7 The 1960s, The Rock Invation Chapter 8 The 1970s, The Balkanization of Popular Music Chapter 9 The 1980s, The Rise of the Music Video Star Chapter 10 The 1990s, The Digital Revolution Begins
William Ruhlmann is a well-known writer on American popular music, and a regular contributor to several journals and trade magazines devoted to pop music history and culture. He was a consulting editor to Baker'sBiographical Dictionary of Musicians, Centennial Edition, and has authored several books on popular music performers, including Barbra Streisand and Chicago. He resides in New York City.
"When music critics and fans debate such lofty imponderables as "the greatest records of all time" or "the most influential artists ever," they are necessarily referring to the vast library of recorded sound produced during the 20th Century. Few writers have the knowledge or wherewithal to take on a span of time that delivered everyone from Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis, Robert Johnson to Led Zeppelin, Bing Crosby to the Beatles and onward--Ellington to Elvis, Hank to Hendrix, Coltrane to Cobain. William Ruhlmann has managed, in a single volume, to encapsulate virtually the entire history of recorded popular music, from the age of the wax cylinder to the advent of the MP3. It's a truly remarkable tale, told in lively, informative prose that encourages discovery and compels the reader to marvel." -- Jeff Tamarkin, author of Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of JeffersonAirplane
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