The Beatles As The End Of Rock & Roll: What Have We Learned From Wald's Alternative History?

Special guest scholar and musician Yuri Campbell returns to review the key lessons we learned from Nate’s discussion with Elijah Wald about his book “How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music.”

Nate and Yuri evaluate Wald’s revisionist history of the evolution of popular music in the 20th century and his claim that Paul Whiteman was the Beatles of the 1920s or rather that the Beatles were the Paul Whiteman of the 1960s.

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• Elijah Wald on How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'N' Roll
  
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