A personal; idiosyncratic history of popular music that also may well be definitive; from the revered music criticFrom the age of song sheets in the late nineteenth-century to the contemporary era of digital streaming; pop music has been our most influential laboratory for social and aesthetic experimentation; changing the world three minutes at a time.In Love for Sale; David Hajdumdash;one of the most respected critics and music historians of our timemdash;draws on a lifetime of listening; playing; and writing about music to show how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies of love and sex to teenagers. From vaudeville singer Eva Tanguay; the ldquo;I Donrsquo;t Care Girlrdquo; who upended Victorian conceptions of feminine propriety to become one of the biggest stars of her day to the scandal of Blondie playing disco at CBGB; Hajdu presents an incisive and idiosyncratic history of a form that has repeatedly upset social and cultural expectations.Exhaustively researched and rich with fresh insights; Love for Sale is unbound by the usual tropes of pop music history. Hajdu; for instance; gives a star turn to Bessie Smith and the ldquo;blues queensrdquo; of the 1920s; who brought wildly transgressive sexuality to American audience decades before rock and roll. And there is Jimmie Rodgers; a former blackface minstrel performer; who created country music from the songs of rural white and blacks . . . entwined with the sound of the Swiss yodel. And then there are todayrsquo;s practitioners of Electronic Dance Music; who Hajdu celebrates for carrying the pop revolution to heretofore unimaginable frontiers. At every turn; Hajdu surprises and challenges readers to think about our most familiar art in unexpected ways.Masterly and impassioned; authoritative and at times deeply personal; Love for Sale is a book of critical history informed by its writers own unique history as a besotted fan and lifelong student of pop.
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