Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers (Music in American Life) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers (Music in American Life) Book

Presents history of the independent rock 'n' roll record industry from its raw regional beginnings in the 1940s with R and B and hillbilly music through its peak in the 1950s and decline in the 1960s. This book combines narrative history with oral history material from numerous recording pioneers.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    This volume is an engaging and exceptional history of the independent rock 'n' roll record industry from its raw regional beginnings in the 1940s with R & B and hillbilly music through its peak in the 1950s and decline in the 1960s. John Broven combines narrative history with extensive oral history material from numerous recording pioneers including Joe Bihari of Modern Records; Marshall Chess of Chess Records; Jerry Wexler, Ahmet Ertegun, and Miriam Bienstock of Atlantic Records; Sam Phillips of Sun Records; Art Rupe of Specialty Records; and many more.

  • Foyles

    An authoritative history of the trailblazers of the independent rock n roll record industry

  • 025207727X
  • 9780252077272
  • John Broven
  • 2 March 2010
  • University of Illinois Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 640
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