authors:subjects:- Popular music -- History and criticism
- Popular music -- Analysis, appreciation
publishers:ISBN:- 0195125703
- 0195125711 (pbk.)
notes:- Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-512) and index.
- CHAPTER 1. BEFORE 1950; 1. Technology, the Dawn of Popular Music, and the "King of Jazz"; 2. Big Band Swing Music; 3. Solo Pop Singers; 4. Hillbilly and Race Music; 5. Race Music and the Classic Blues; 6. Bessie Smith; 7. Country Blues/Delta Blues and Robert Johnson; 8. From Race Music to Rhythm and Blues; 9. T-Bone Walker; 10. Louis Jordan; 11. Johnny Otis; 12. Wynonie Harris; 13. The Producers Answer Back: The Emergence of the "Indie" Record Company; 14. Henry Glover; 15. Ahmet Ertegun; 16. Country Music as Folk Music, Country Music as Novelty; CHAPTER 2. THE 1950S; 1. Country Music Approaches the Mainstream; 2. Hank Williams; 3. Rhythm and Blues in the Early 1950s: B.B. King; 4. "The House that Ruth Brown Built"; 5. Ray Charles, or When Saturday Night Mixed it Up with Sunday Morning; 6. Jerry Wexler: A Life in R & B; 7. The Growing Threat of Rhythm and Blues; 8. From Rhythm and Blues to Rock 'n' Roll: The Songs of Chuck Berry; 9. Little Richard: Boldly Going Where No Man Had Gone Before; 10. Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Rockability; 11. Rock 'n' Roll Meets the Popular Press; 12. The Music Industry Fights Against Rock 'n' Roll: Dick Clark's Teen-Pop Empire and the Payola Scandal; CHAPTER 3. THE 1960S; 1. Brill Building; 2. Surf; 3. Urban Rock/Folk Rock; 4. Bob Dylan; 5. Dylan Meets the Press; 6. From R & B to Soul: Early 1960s Soul/R & B; 7. No Town like Motown; 8. James Brown and the Beginnings of Funk; 9. Southern Soul and Otis Redding; 10. Aretha Franklin; 11. The British Invastion, Part 1: The Beatles; 12. A Hard Day's Night, and Further Incursion into the World of Critical Respectability; 13. The British Invasion, Part 2: The Rolling Stones, Art School, and British Blues Revival; 14. The Stones vs. The Beatles; 15. The Who, The Kinks, and Other Deviant Phenomena; 16. San Francisco: The Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead; 17. Janis Joplin; 18. Santana; 19. Hendrix; 20. Rock Meets the Avant-Garde: Frank Zappa; 21. Pop/Bubblegum.
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