His discussion of the legal, aesthetic, and industrial ramifications of changes in the recording process over the course of the 1950s will make popular music scholars and record collectors reconsider what they think they know about the period." Albin Zak insightfully explores what recording actually means in terms of the process of making and consuming music. " I Don't Sound Like Nobody is a superb account of the transformation of American popular music in the 1950s. Craig Werner, author of A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America Zak tracks the story which extends from Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra through Elvis and Buddy Holly to the Beatles and Bob Dylan with excursions into dozens of lesser known, but crucial, players in a game with few established rules. "Wrestling clarity from the exuberant chaos of early rock 'n' roll, Albin Zak's I Don't Sound Like Nobody redefines our understanding of the record in the shaping of the post–World War II soundscape. Richard Crawford, author of America's Musical Life: A History Fashioned from a mix of copyright law, recording studios and techniques, the talent of musicians and disc jockeys, the ingenuity and avarice of producers, and the appetites of record buyers, the all-powerful marketplace Zak describes is an unruly zone where music of, by, and for the people is made and anointed." Zak III's highly original study, phonograph records are not just the medium for disseminating songs but musical works unto themselves.
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