Tell Tchaikovsky the news : rock 'n' roll, the labor question, and the musicians' union, 1942-1968 / Michael James Roberts.

For two decades after rock music emerged in the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the oldest and largest labor union representing professional musicians in the United States and Canada, refused to recognize rock 'n' roll as legitimate music or its performers as skilled mus...

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