An Alternative History of Popular Music
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
How The Beatles Destroyed Rock And Roll is a new book that offers an alternate history of American popular music. Author Elijah Wald joins us to explain the provocative title and give his perspective on American pop history. Plus: Sultry violinist Lara St. John performs Bach and a Czardas Caprice live in our studio.
Turning Pop Music History on Its Head
The Fab Four turned rock into an art form, but not everyone thinks that was a good thing. Author Elijah Wald joins us to talk about his alternative history of American pop music, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Tell us: What do you think? What was lost ...
Tell us: What do you think? What was lost ...
Lara St. John
Violinist Lara St. John has built a reputation playing Bach, Vivaldi, Corigliano and now even, polka music. The Canadian-born, New York-based violinist joins us today to perform live and to share her latest recordings: one pairing Vivaldi and Piazzolla and another titled Polkastra, a classical-world-roots super-group with a dose of ...
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Elijah Wald is a good writer. And like most good writers, he knows a good title when he sees one; a good title will grab you and make you eager to open the book and start finding out where that title came from. So when he titled his new book How The Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll, he knew just what he was doing
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