Love for Sale: Pop Music in America

He is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction and and one collection of essays:Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (1996), Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña (2001), The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America (2008), and Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Co

If you are interested in music in the 1st half of th e1900s, this is an interesting book I found the book's coverage of 1900 to the late 1950s fascinating however after that I thought after that the book became kind of incomplete and sketchy.. "Superb." according to Jeffrey Chamberlain. This book is well-written and consistently interesting. I think it's worth your time even if you don't have an inherent interest in the subject. I started reading it again immediately after finishing it the first time, and I don't remember the last time I did that.. Original, and thought provoking Dr Jeeves As a British indie rock fan, I know my trope to the blues that predates RnR.Combining both personal and academic perspectives, this is a fresh read, with a number of new insights!I appreciated the author's narrative from the sales of notes to the invention of vinyl, and on to his son, with each generation shocking their predecessors and boring their offspring.

Pop Music: Our Most Influential Laboratory for Social and Aesthetic ExperimentationChanging the World Three Minutes at a TimeNamed a Must-Read by Vanity Fair and the BBC as well as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers WeeklyIn Love for Sale: Pop Music in America, from the vaudeville singer Eva Tanguay, the “‘I Don’t Care’ Girl,” who upended Victorian conceptions of feminine property to become one of the biggest stars of her day, to the scandal of Blondie playing disco at CBGB, David Hajduone of the most respected music historians of our timepresents an incisive and idiosyncratic history of a form that has repeatedly upset social and cultural expectations.Hajdu, unbound by the usual tropes of pop music history, gives a star turn to Bessie Smith and the blues queens of the 1920s who brought wildly transgressive sexuality to American audiences decades before rock and roll. And Jimmie Rodgers, a former blackface minstrel performer, who created cou

But in his new book Love for Sale, music critic David Hajdu argues that it’s one of the most meaningful forms of expression in American culture." Time Magazine"A blend of history, criticism, and autobiographyit does touch on most major developments in how pop music has been produced and consumed in the United States from the 1890s through the present." Los Angeles Review of Books. "Love for Sale: Pop Music in America is easy to devour for anyone who still feels a pang of nostalgia or despair when walking past a bank branch where a record store used to be." The New York Times Book Review"One of our sharpest music critics." The Wall Street Journal"No, this is not just a standard history o