Wald Elijah. How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll - An Alternative History of American Popular Music

Oxford University Press, 2009. — 323 p. — ISBN: 9780195341546.Written with verve and style, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll shakes up our staid notions of music history and helps us hear American popular music with new ears... As its blasphemous title suggests, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history.