Retelling the History of Black Music: Everything You Know about the Blues Is Wrong

By Mark Reynolds

For the most part, blacks were not involved in the heroic work of rescuing the black acoustic blues legacy from the passage of time. [3 July 2008]

(more Negritude 2.0)

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll by Elijah Wald

By Louis P. Masur

If the world is divided into those who see forests and those who see trees, Wald is in love with every branch of the ramifying bush that is popular music. [5 August 2009]

Hound Dog & How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Michael E. Young

Meet the songwriters who helped make Elvis a star, and find out why one author curses the Beatles. [22 June 2009]