The Record Men
The Record Men
副标题: The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll (Enterprise)
ISBN: 9780393327502
出版社: W. W. Norton
出版年: 2005-10-17
页数: 160
定价: USD 13.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
"Brilliant…the best book I have ever read about the recording industry…a classic."—Larry King
On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants—one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi—met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters electrified the blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it. Soon Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and Chess Records captured that, too. Rock & roll had arrived, and an industry was born.
In a book as vibrantly and exuberantly written as the music and people it portrays, Rich Cohen tells the engrossing story of how Leonard Chess, with the other record men, made this new sound into a multi-billion-dollar business—aggressively acquiring artists, hard-selling distributors, riding the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation. 12 illustrations. Originally published in hardcover as Machers and Rockers.
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