All Shook Up How Rock And Roll Changed America Analysis

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Music has always had an important role in society throughout the ages. Through the decades music has changed in regards to style and its culture. As with anything that stimulates change music brought about conflicts between racial and gender classes. The book I selected to read, All Shook Up: How Rock ‘N’ Roll Changed America, was written by award winning author Glenn C. Altschuler. In his book Altschuler discusses specifically how rock and roll aided or discouraged the changes that were brought about. Throughout the book Altschuler gives good explanation and uses strong sources to prove his claim that music has really changed and affected America. The arguments that I found most intriguing while reading were about race and sexuality in regards

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