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Waiting for the sun : a rock 'n' roll history of Los Angeles

Title
  1. Waiting for the sun : a rock 'n' roll history of Los Angeles / Barney Hoskyns.
Published by
  1. New York : Backbeat Books, 2009.
Author
  1. Hoskyns, Barney.

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Description
  1. xviii, 418 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 20 cm.
Subject
  1. Popular music > California > Los Angeles > History and criticism
Contents
  1. Intro : After the goldrush, or Los Angeles without a star map -- On the avenue : West Coast cool, California crazy -- Boys of summer -- Sunset nights, jingle-jangle mornings -- Maybe the people would be the times, or Between Doheny and La Cienega -- Strange daze, weird sins -- Ladies and gentlemen of the canyon -- Crawling down Cahuenga on a broken pair of legs, or What were once vices are now habits -- The decline of the west -- Rituals of the habitual -- Epilogue : Slipping into darkness -- Postscript : Mongrel Hollywood : Mixmaster Beck in the city of the angels -- Appendix : Los Angeles in song.
Call number
  1. JND 11-93
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-383) and index.
Author
  1. Hoskyns, Barney.
Title
  1. Waiting for the sun : a rock 'n' roll history of Los Angeles / Barney Hoskyns.
Imprint
  1. New York : Backbeat Books, 2009.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-383) and index.
LCCN
  1. 2009003023
ISBN
  1. 9780879309435
  2. 0879309431
Research call number
  1. JND 11-93
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