The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock'n'Roll

Informationen zum Autor Preston Lauterbach is the author of Bluff City , Beale Street Dynasty , The Chitlin’ Circuit , a Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe book of the year, and co-author of Brother Johnson: Growing Up with Robert Johnson . He is a former visiting scholar at Rhodes College and a Virginia Humanities Fellow. He lives in Virginia. Klappentext For generations, "chitlin' circuit" has meant second tier-brash performers in raucous nightspots far from the big-city limelight. Now, music journalist Preston Lauterbach combines terrific firsthand reportage with deep historical research to offer a groundbreaking account of the birth of rock 'n' roll in black America. Zusammenfassung “Lauterbach’s tribute . . . is welcome and overdue.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

Product details

• Authors: Preston Lauterbach, Lauterbach Preston
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.08.2012
• EAN: 9780393342949
• ISBN: 978-0-393-34294-9
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; USA, Rock, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Pop Music, Popular Music, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)