Marcus Berkmann

Music for the masses

If only Peter Doggett’s vast survey had been a little less scholarly, we might all have been talking about Electric Shock — rather than just trying to lift it

  • Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone— 125 Years of Pop Music

    Peter Doggett

    The Bodley Head, pp. 692

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