All Shook Up

The birth of rock ''n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock ''n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that...