Description
Louis Cantor illuminates Phillips's role in turning a huge white audience on to previously forbidden race music. Phillips's zeal for rhythm and blues legitimized the sound and set the stage for both Elvis's subsequent success and the rock 'n' roll revolution of the 1950s. Using personal interviews, documentary sources, and oral history collections, Cantor presents a personal view of the disc jockey while restoring Phillips's place as an essential figure in rock 'n' roll history.
The pioneering deejay who brought rock 'n' roll to Memphis
About the Author
Louis Cantor is professor emeritus of history at Indiana University. He is the author of Wheelin' on Beale: How WDIA-Memphis Became the Nation's First All-Black Radio Station and Created the Sound That Changed America, and A Prologue to the Protest Movement: The Missouri Sharecropper Roadside Demonstration of 1939, which was made into an award-winning documentary film.
Reviews
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006.- A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006.
Book Information
ISBN 9780252077326
Author Louis Cantor
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Weight(grams) 513g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 28mm