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Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music

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Title
Title: Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music
Author: Martha Bayles
ISBN: 9780029019627
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 453
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Hole in Our Soul looks at popular music from the early days of jazz, blues, country and gospel through the rise of rock 'n' roll and the excesses of the MTV era. Martha Bayles defends the hardy, affirmative spirit of Afro-American music against the anarchistic, nihilistic impulses of the European avant-garde, which, she argues, were grafted onto rock in the late 1960s and led to a cult of brutality and obscenity in subsequent genres like heavy metal, punk and rap.