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Nate Wilcox's "Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. letitrollpodcast.substack.com
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Pop Had An Entirely Different Meaning Before 1955 (opens the original)
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Host Nate Wilcox welcomes Bob Stanley to discuss “Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop Music, A History” - the prequel to his own earlier book, “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé”. That one started in 1955 and ran forward through the rock and roll era. This one goes back and asks what the word “pop” meant before rock and roll took the name away from it. The answer is that it meant almost everything. Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley, dance bands and crooners, the Broad
Hardcore Punk Ignored Corporate America (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Most of the other musical movements we’ve covered at Let It Roll were all too eager to cut deals with corporate America to reach a mass audience. Today’s topic is the one subgenre that loudly and proudly proclaimed it wanted nothing to do with corporate America or even mainstream American culture. Between 1980 and 1986, hardcore punk bands built their own labels, their own venues, their own fanzines, and
The Weavers: Folk Music vs the Black List (opens the original)
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This week author Jesse Jarnow joins Nate to talk about his book “Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist and the Battle for the Soul of America.” In this episode, Jesse tells Nate about one of America’s unlikeliest million selling pop combos -- the folk singing, unabashedly left wing Weavers and their battles with the paranoid American right wing, all in the context of a pre-rock and roll 50’s when pop was at its all-time whitest and blandest. Buy the book and support the podcast. Downloa
The Kinks' Class-Consciousness Made Them Wary of the Promises of Swinging London (opens the original)
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Host Nate Wilcox and Mark Doyle discuss Ray Davies and the Kinks and their unique status among British Invasion artists. Let It Roll is proud to be part of Pantheon Podcasts. Have a question or a suggestion for a topic or person for Nate to interview? Email letitrollpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Irving Berlin Defined American Music: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 2.11 (opens the original)
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Host Nate Wilcox welcomes James Kaplan to discuss his book “Irving Berlin: New York Genius” — a life that runs from a Lower East Side childhood to a fifty-year career at the centre of American popular song, and then to almost thirty years of silence. Jerome Kern’s line is the one everybody quotes, and it holds up: Berlin has no place in American music, he is American music. Kaplan and Nate draw the comparison to Lennon and McCartney — the same work ethic, the same instinct for how a song is buil
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