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  1. Chuck Berry

Carl’s Rock Songbook #75: Bayles on the Beatles Beating Motown

by Carl Scott

Martha Bayles’s expertise, which besides her punchy prose is the main attraction of her Hole In Our Soul , extends beyond the p’s and q’s of American popular music, but also covers the impact various theories of modernism and art had upon the music’s development. She is . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Dec 2012

Carl’s Rock Songbook #43: Roll over Beethoven?

by Carl Scott

Rock and disco, the typical middle-class alternatives to Afro-American popular music, are inferior forms of music; however, as Pete Townsend helped us to see in the last Songbook post , it may usually be too difficult, and is (arguably) inauthentic anyhow, for middle class persons to play . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2012
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