false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175013726m/467089.jpg 467089 1 The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music-black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude-made it onto records for all to hear. This book brings a forgotten music, hot music, to life by describing how it became the dominant American music-how it outlasted sentimental waltzes and parlor ballads, symphonic marches and Tin Pan Alley novelty numbers-and how it became rock 'n' roll. It reveals that the young men and women of that bygone era had the same musical instincts as their descendants Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and even Ozzy Osbourne. In minstrelsy, ragtime, brass bands, early jazz and blues, fiddle music, and many other forms, there was as much stomping and swerving as can be found in the most exciting performances of hot jazz, funk, and rock. Along the way, it explains how the strange combination of African with Scotch and Irish influences made music in the United States vastly different from other African and Caribbean musics; shares terrific stories about minstrel shows, "coon" songs, whorehouses, knife fights, and other low-life phenomena; and showcases a motley collection of performers heretofore unknown to all but the most avid musicologists and collectors. 455454 1 8 2003 Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924 total:9|5:0|4:7|3:2|2:0|1:0| 9 34 14 3 4 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 10 21:02:43 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 21:06:38 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Feb 15 19:42:30 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 19:43:48 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Feb 02 13:06:55 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 13:06:56 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 29 14:17:27 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 14:17:27 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 15:25:10 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 15:25:10 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:23:17 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 00:23:17 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jun 27 14:03:33 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 14:03:33 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 13 07:15:59 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 07:15:59 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Dec 02 18:15:29 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 18:15:29 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Oct 05 13:55:50 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 13:55:50 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Aug 15 17:55:59 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 17:55:59 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Nov 10 11:32:11 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 10 11:32:11 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Wed Oct 24 08:51:53 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 08:52:00 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Mon Oct 22 16:13:31 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 16:13:40 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=467089