Stories We Could Tell: Putting Words to American Popular Music

by David Sanjek and Mark Duffett

How has the history of rock 'n' roll been told? Has it become formulaic? Or remained, like the music itself, open to outside influences? Who have been the genre's primary historians? What common frameworks or sets of assumptions have music history narratives shared? And, most importantly, what is the cost of failing to question such assumptions? "Stories We Could Tell: Putting Words to American Popular Music" identifies eight typical strategies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367586193
• ISBN13: 9780367586195
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages