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Cargando... Machers and Rockers: Chess Records and the Business of Rock & Roll (Enterprise) (2004 original; edición 2004)por Rich Cohen
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This isn't exactly a biography of Leonard Chess or even a history of his record label, though much of the book is based on these elements. Cohen is more interested in the broad sweep of history that reaches from Jewish immigration to Black Power. His style is snappy and he's happy to gloss over details in the interests of keeping the story going. Along the way he indulges in some entertaining and provocative historical arguments that are breathtaking for their chutzpah (my favourite being that without Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters' guitarist, there would have been no Bill Clinton - on the same basis that without Napoleon, there would have been no state of Israel). ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants; one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi; met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters electrified the blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it. Soon Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and Chess Records captured that, too. Rock & roll had arrived, and an industry was born. In a book as vibrantly and exuberantly written as the music and people it portrays, Rich Cohen tells the engrossing story of how Leonard Chess, with the other record men, made this new sound into a multi-billion-dollar business; aggressively acquiring artists, hard-selling distributors, riding the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation. Originally published in hardcover as Machers and Rockers. About the series: Enterprise pairs distinguished writers with stories of the economic forces that have shaped the modern worlds; the institutions, the entrepreneurs, the ideas. Enterprise introduces a new genre; the business book as literature. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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