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Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n Roll Song; Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands ... Introducing for the First Time Anywhere, the | 
| Author: Dave Marsh
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 746026
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 047203023X
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166
EAN: 9780472030231
ASIN: 047203023X
Publication Date: November 4, 2004
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The fascinating story of one of the world's most famous rock 'n' roll songs
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Great read April 11, 2006
I suppose I was always going to say that, having already been converted myself to Louie Louie as "the only rock and roll song you'll ever need" (collected 60+ versions to date). It's just a fascinating journey with so many unexpected twists and turns but the ever present "duh duh duh". And still amazingly relevant today. And funny!
Intrigue, high drama, and twists and turns May 12, 2005
A new preface by the author graces the pages of Louie Louie: The History & Mythology Of The World's Most Famous Rock N Roll Song. While it's hard to see how any song, however famous, could earn an entire book discussion, once you delve into Dave Marsh's Louie Louie, with its intrigue, high drama, and twists and turns, it's hard to see what took so long for the full tale to come to light - and yes, it earns its own book. This new edition provides a new preface by Marsh as it covers the complexities of a song which involved even the FBI.
 excellent history, memetics January 10, 2002
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
By following the fate of one song Marsh gives us an excellent feel for how culture operates at a middle scale, somewhere between the micro-scale of individual performances and listenings and the macroscale of decades-long changes in musical styles. If you're interested in "memetics" but tired of empty bloviation about mind viruses and such, read this book and follow one musical meme on its tour of the memesphere.
The history of Rock'n'Roll: one song's perspective November 5, 2001
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Okay--truth be told, I bought this book as a joke. This book is no joke. Dave Marsh, an excellent writer, put together a real page-turner. (...)
Everything you wanted to know about Louie, Louie and more. November 25, 1995
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Half way through this book I knew more about this rocksong then I had ever wanted to know and then it kicked in to the history of Paul Revere and the Raiders. I keep on and she what other obscure trivia is to be revealed.
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