When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle Between Jazz and Rock

by Matthew Thomas Brennan and Matt Brennan

Book Overview

When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the new music called rock 'n' roll "is the most raucous form of jazz, beyond a doubt." So why did jazz and rock subsequently become treated as separate genres?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501326147
• ISBN13: 9781501326141
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"