- Hardcover: 262 pages
- Publisher: State University of New York Press; illustrated edition edition (6 April 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0791467333
- ISBN-13: 978-0791467336
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm
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Moves from Beethoven to Buffy to examine the blurred nexus of elite and popular culture in the twenty-first century.
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In 1954, one year before Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock around the Clock"-what Palmer calls the "original white rock 'n' roll" song-became number one on the pop charts, marking a "turning point in the history of popular music," and one year before Elvis covered Little Junior Parker's "Mystery Train" (then signed, under the self-interested tutelage of Colonel Parker, with RCA), IN 1954-the same year the Supreme Court ruled racial segregation unconstitutional-the nineteen-year-old and still very much alive Elvis Presley walked into the Memphis Recording Service and cut Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's "That's All Right." Read the first page
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In 1954, one year before Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock around the Clock"-what Palmer calls the "original white rock 'n' roll" song-became number one on the pop charts, marking a "turning point in the history of popular music," and one year before Elvis covered Little Junior Parker's "Mystery Train" (then signed, under the self-interested tutelage of Colonel Parker, with RCA), IN 1954-the same year the Supreme Court ruled racial segregation unconstitutional-the nineteen-year-old and still very much alive Elvis Presley walked into the Memphis Recording Service and cut Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's "That's All Right." Read the first page
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