Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of
popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital
age, from the first pop superstars of the twentieth century to the
omnipresence of music in our lives, in hit singles, ringtones and on
Spotify.
Over that time, popular music has transformed the world
in which we live. Its rhythms have influenced how we walk down the
street, how we face ourselves in the mirror, and how we handle the
outside world in our daily conversations and encounters. It has
influenced our morals and social mores; it has transformed our attitudes
towards race and gender, religion and politics.
From the
beginning of recording, when a musical performance could be preserved
for the first time, to the digital age, when all of recorded music is
only a mouse-click away; from the straitlaced ballads of the Victorian
era and the ‘coon songs’ that shocked America in the early twentieth
century to gangsta rap, death metal and the multiple strands of modern
dance music: Peter Doggett takes us on a rollercoaster ride through the
history of music. Within a narrative full of anecdotes and characters, Electric Shock mixes
musical critique with wider social and cultural history and shows how
revolutionary changes in technology have turned popular music into the
lifeblood of the modern world.
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Gracias por el libro, parece muy interesante!!!
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