Machers and Rockers: Chess Records and the Business of Rock & Roll
A tour-de-force history of Jews, blues, and the birth of a new industry. 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 m…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-05280-0
- EAN: 9780393052800
- Produktnummer: 9182981
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
- Masse: H14.7 cm x B21.8 cm x D2.5 cm 431 g
- Gewicht: 431
Über den Autor
Rich Cohen is the author of Tough Jews, The Avengers, and Lake Effect. He lives in New York City.
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