Name: Let's Do It: The Birth Of Pop
Brand: Bob Stanley

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

9780571320257signed

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format Books GB

Hardback

Format detail

Signed by the Author with Rough Trade Exclusive Badge Pack and Flexi Disc of Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin

Limited edition

Release date

2022-05-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: Yes

Supplier GB

Faber

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / Extended format: Yes / Hardback / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: Yes

Artist

Bob Stanley

Genre GB

Music

Label GB

The must-read music book of the year: Bob Stanley's prequel to Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. 

Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties.

The story begins in 1898 with the first 78 record - the first recorded pop music and mass produced sheet music. It starts with London (and to a degree Vienna) as the heart of popular music - there is no confidence in the American voice. This begins to change with Ragtime, is exacerbated by Europe tearing itself to bits in WW1, and by the turn of the 1920s America dominates popular culture. 

The book features early blues stars Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington and the birth of Jazz, Broadway, Race Records and the parallel worlds of white and black music, Radio, Talking Pictures, Crooners such as Bing Crosby who was the first person to develop a new way of singing with a microphone, the dominance of Frank Sinatra, the man who signed both Billie Holliday and Bob Dylan and more. At the end of the book, the circle has turned and - just for a moment - London again has the pop pulse

Let's Do It: The Birth Of Pop

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