A Tale of Two Louies: Interpreting an Archetypal American Musical Icon
Presented by Christopher Doll, Professor of Composition and Theory, Rutgers University
The infamous song "Louie Louie" was enormously influential on early sixties rock 'n' roll, to the extent that Frank Zappa dubbed it an "Archetypal American Musical Icon." In this presentation, Dr. Christopher Doll discusses the tangled roots of this noteworthy recording and investigates the various strands of its influence from the sixties to the present day.
