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An insightful, delightful look at 'the sounds pouring out of radios and jukeboxes in the 1950s and 1960s' (The Wall Street Journal ) Emerson takes flight.... Here we get the whole tale in a single entertaining package. (The New York Times Book Review) Superb... Witty, in love with the music, Emerson is the ideal companion for this narrative.... Beautiful stuff. (The Boston Globe)

An insightful, delightful look at 'the sounds pouring out of radios and jukeboxes in the 1950s and 1960s' (The Wall Street Journal ) Emerson takes flight.... Here we get the whole tale in a single entertaining package. (The New York Times Book Review) Superb... Witty, in love with the music, Emerson is the ideal companion for this narrative.... Beautiful stuff. (The Boston Globe)

An insightful, delightful look at the sounds pouring out of radios and jukeboxes in the 1950s and 1960s ( The Wall Street Journal ) Emerson takes flight.... Here we get the whole tale in a single entertaining package. ( The New York Times Book Review ) Superb... Witty, in love with the music, Emerson is the ideal companion for this narrative.... Beautiful stuff. ( The Boston Globe )

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Ken Emerson, the author of Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture and coauthor of Stephen Foster, a documentary film for the PBS series The American Experience, has written widely about popular music and culture since the 1960s. His articles and reviews have appeared in publications ranging from Rolling Stone to The Wall Street Journal. He is the former articles editor of The New York Times Magazine and op-ed editor of New York Newsday.

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