Lets Do It The Birth Of Pop Music A History Bob Stanley by Bob Stanley 9781639362509, 1639362509 instant download after payment.

Pop music didn't begin with The Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century. Who were these earliest record stars—and were they in any meaningful way "pop stars"? Who was George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a decade or more, become almost invisible after World War II? 

The prequel to Bob Stanley’s celebrated Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!, this new volume is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of rock & the modern pop age. Covering superstars such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington & Frank Sinatra, alongside the unheralded songwriters & arrangers behind some of our most enduring songs, Stanley paints an aural portrait of pop music's formative years in stunning clarity, uncovering the silver threads & golden needles that bind the form together. 

Bringing the eclectic, evolving world of early pop to life—from ragtime, blues & jazz to Broadway, country, crooning, & Beyond — Let's Do It is essential reading for all music lovers. "An encyclopaedic introduction to the fascinating & often forgotten creators of Anglo-American hit music in the first half of the twentieth century." — Neil Tennant (The Pet Shop Boys)