How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music YA_Gift_Guide As his cover story begins

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How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music YA_Gift_Guide As his cover story begins"There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hip hop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the