Get to know Texas author Hank Ewert ARTWALK, November 21st and 22nd between 3 and 7 PM at Front Street Books!
Hank’s book, Let the Music Speak: Tracking the Sounds That Changed Everything, 1945-1950 offers a unique perspective on postwar American popular music and its roots. Ewert creates an unusual window into how the music itself developed and eschews the traditional narrative approach of music books: the book literally takes the reader into the specifics of what happened and why – letting the experience of the period provide a different story than most histories of rock and roll or jazz or country. The book’s lens on music-making and its cultural context shows rather than tells the interested reader what happened and how key musical genres evolved in six crucial years.
