[Dixielandjazz] New Book: "How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll" actually OKOM related

[David Richoux]

Hi all,

Just read a review of this book in my local paper - the title is a bit  
deceptive!

here is a snip from a Newsweek review:

> Elijah Wald is the author of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n'  
> Roll, in which he tries to convince us that much about the way we  
> interpret the history of pop is wrong. Wald argues that most of "the  
> music's critics and historians have typically sought to distinguish  
> the music they love from the mediocre pap that surrounded it. As a  
> result, virtually all rock histories portray Pat Boone and Connie  
> Francis in much the same way that jazz histories portray Guy  
> Lombardo and Rudy Vallee." Wald sees two things wrong with this  
> approach. First, lots of people listened to Paul Whiteman and Jelly  
> Roll Morton, or Pat Boone and Little Richard. Second, it distorts  
> the way the music developed, with disparate artists listening to—and  
> filching from—each other. Louis Armstrong was a Guy Lombardo fan.  
> Elvis sang almost only dreamy ballads before he entered Sun Studios  
> and changed history.
>
> The musical world that Wald describes lasted from the first decade  
> of the 20th century until somewhere in the middle '60s. Then came  
> the Beatles...
>

http://www.newsweek.com/id/198791

anyway, I have not read it yet, but I probably will.

Dave Richoux