{"product_id":"love-for-sale-pop-music-in-america-9781250141217","title":"Love for Sale: Pop Music in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePop Music: Our Most Influential Laboratory for Social and Aesthetic Experimentation--Changing the World Three Minutes at a Time \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Must-Read by \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e and the BBC as well as a\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLove for Sale: Pop Music in America\u003c\/i\u003e, from the vaudeville singer Eva Tanguay, the \"'I Don't Care' Girl,\" who upended Victorian conceptions of feminine property to become one of the biggest stars of her day, to the scandal of Blondie playing disco at CBGB, David Hajdu--one of the most respected music historians of our time--presents an incisive and idiosyncratic history of a form that has repeatedly upset social and cultural expectations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHajdu, unbound by the usual tropes of pop music history, gives a star turn to Bessie Smith and the blues queens of the 1920s who brought wildly transgressive sexuality to American audiences decades before rock and roll. And Jimmie Rodgers, a former blackface minstrel performer, who created country music from the songs of rural whites and blacks...entwined with the sound of the Swiss yodel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSurveying the late-nineteenth century to the present era of digital streaming, \u003ci\u003eLove for Sale\u003c\/i\u003e is as authoritative as it is impassioned, drawing from the critic's unique history as a besotted fan and lifelong student of pop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Hajdu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250141217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Hajdu\u003c\/b\u003e is the music critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003ePositively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eThe Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003eHeroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). He lives in Manhattan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44321872478323,"sku":"9781250141217","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_64891f2c-1c6d-4fee-b5f0-e52ce5d226a3.jpg?v=1771504794","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/love-for-sale-pop-music-in-america-9781250141217","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}