This exploration of rock ‘n’ roll music and culture in Birmingham, Alabama, is based on the oral histories of musicians, their fans and professionals in the popular music industry. Collected over a twenty-year period, their stories describe the coming of rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s, the rise of the garage bands in the 1960s, of southern rock in the 1970s, and of alternative music in the 1980s and 1990s. Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Magic City Nights provides an insider’s view of the dramatic changes in the business and status of popular music from the era of the vacuum tube to twenty-first-century digital technology. These collective memories offer a unique perspective on the impact of a subversive and racially integrated music culture in one of the most conservative and racially divided cities in the country.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction
Rock ‘n’ Roll Comes to Birmingham
Records and Rock ‘n’ Roll
The Garage Bands
On the Road
Race and Music in Birmingham
Music in the Struggle for Civil Rights
The Beatles Are Coming!
Birmingham and the Counterculture
The Muscle Shoals Sound
Southern Rock
Opportunity Knocks
The Morris Avenue Boom
Decline and Fall: The End of Southern Rock
The New Wave
The Next Big Thing
Music and Community
The Curse of Tommy Charles
Birmingham Music in the Digital Age
Notes
Index
Circa l’autore
Andre Millard is a historian of popular culture and professor of history at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He is the author of Edison and the Business of Innovation, America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound, The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon, Magic City Nights: Birmingham’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Years and ‘Beatlemania.
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