Devil's Music Holy Rollers and Hillbillies

<p> Rock music today is universal and its popular history is well known. Yet few know how and why it really came about. Taking a fresh look at events long overlooked or misunderstood this book tells how some of the most disenfranchised people in a free and prosperous nation strove to make themselves heard--and changed the world. Describing the genesis of rock and roll the author covers everything from its deep roots in the Mississippi Delta key early figures like deejay Daddy-O Dewey Phillips and gospel star Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the influence of so-called holy rollers of the Pentecostal church who became crucial performers--Elvis Presley Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard.</p>