Pop Had An Entirely Different Meaning Before 1955: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 2.12

Host Nate Wilcox welcomes Bob Stanley to discuss “Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop Music, A History” - the prequel to his own earlier book, “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé”.

That one started at 1955 and ran forward through the rock and roll era. This one goes back and asks what the word “pop” meant before rock and roll…