STOMP AND SWERVE: AMERICAN MUSIC GETS HOT, 1843 - 1924

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STOMP AND SWERVE: AMERICAN MUSIC GETS HOT, 1843 - 1924 by David Wondrich: Early decades of American popular music are the dark ages, until the mid-1920s when recordings became popular. This book brings a forgotten music, hot music, to life by describing how it became the dominant American music and became rock 'n' roll. In minstrelsy, ragtime, brass bands, early jazz and blues, fiddle music, and other forms, there was as much stomping and swerving as can be found in the most exciting performances of hot jazz, funk, and rock. It explains how the strange combination of African with Scotch and Irish influences made U.S. music vastly different from other African and Caribbean forms; shares terrific stories about minstrel shows, "coon" songs, whorehouses, knife fights, and other "low-life" phenomena; and showcases a motley collection of performers. 256 pp.
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