Donald Clarke – The rise and fall of popular music. a polemical history
steht komplett hier
http://www.donaldclarkemusicbox.com/rise-and-fall/index.php
in der tat polemisch, aber es liest sich flüssig und es steht viel drin und objektiv ist keiner…
sample:
Suppose for a moment that rock’n’roll had never happened. Suppose American radio had been successful (as the BBC was for a few years) in suppressing it. Suppose nobody had ever paid Tom Parker’s price for Elvis Presley, so that he remained a regional phenomenon, and then went back to driving a truck. Suppose that the Beatles had never been signed by George Martin, and remained a short-lived Liverpool cult, and that in 1970 all we heard on the radio was the style of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey, but played absurdly loud by synthesizers. That is what we have got now: rock’n’roll, the urban folk music of the working class, has been around for over forty years (if you count its hillbilly and rhythm and blues antecedents), and it is as inflated and worn out as minstrelsy was a century ago.
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