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Preface | |
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Introduction: Definitions, Themes, and Issues | |
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Into the Twentieth Century: Popular Music and Mass Culture | |
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Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth of a New Era | |
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Marketing and the Politics of Race, Language, and Gender | |
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No Hablamos Espanol: The Language Barrier | |
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The Long, Hard Climb: Gender Discrimination | |
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Regulating Popular Music | |
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Mass Technology and Popular Taste: The Tin Pan Alley Era | |
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Sound Recording: From Cylinder to Disc | |
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Tin Pan Alley Constructs the Mainstream Tradition | |
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Tin Pan Alley Incorporates African American Music | |
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Tin Pan Alley Consolidates Its Power | |
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Commercial Broadcasting: A Very Private Enterprise | |
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The Growth of Network Radio | |
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The Advertisers Versus the Programmers | |
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Hollywood Bolsters Tin Pan Alley | |
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Blues and Country Music: Mass Media and the Construction of Race | |
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Blues and Country: More Equal than Separate | |
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"Race" Music: The Popular Sounds of Black America | |
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"Hillbilly": The Music of the White Working Class | |
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The Dissemination of Blues and Country: More Separate than Equal | |
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The Long Road Back for Records | |
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"Good Rockin' Tonight": The Rise of Rhythm and Blues | |
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The Publishers and the Broadcasters: ASCAP Versus BMI | |
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Enter the Deejay: The Broadcasters Versus the AFM | |
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From Big Bands to Solo Singers | |
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The Major Labels Reclaim Country Music | |
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The Independents Promote Rhythm and Blues | |
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High Fidelity/Low Overhead | |
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Television and the Suppression of FM Broadcasting | |
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Independent Radio: Deejays in Your Face | |
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Crossing Cultures: The Eruption of Rock 'n' Roll | |
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Cultural Diversity: The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll | |
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Structural Changes in the Music Industry | |
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Sounds of the Cities | |
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New Orleans: The Fertile Crescent of Rock 'n' Roll | |
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Los Angeles: From Jump Blues to Chicano Rock | |
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Chicago: The Blues Electrified | |
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Cincinnati: The Crossroads of Blues and Country | |
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RandB Sanctified: The Gospel Connection | |
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Doo Wop: The Intersection of Gospel, Jazz, and Pop | |
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Rockabilly: The Country Strain | |
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The Empire Strikes Back: The Reaction to Rock 'n' Roll | |
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The Established Powers Fight Back | |
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Covering the Bases | |
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Pop Diversions: From Kingston Town to the Kingston Trio | |
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Schlock Rock: Enter the White Middle Class | |
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Television's Greatest Hits | |
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The Brill Building: The New Tin Pan Alley | |
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The Official Attack on Rock 'n' Roll | |
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Surf's Up! | |
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Popular Music and Political Culture: The Sixties | |
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The Civil Rights Movement and Popular Music | |
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The "Girl Groups" and the Men behind Them | |
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Motown: The Integration of Pop | |
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Folk Music: The Voice of Civil Rights | |
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The British Invasion Occupies the Pop Charts | |
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Breaking the Sounds of Silence | |
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Folk Rock: Adding Substance to Form | |
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Black (Music) Is Beautiful | |
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Against the Grain: The Counterculture | |
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Blues on Acid: Psychedelic Rock | |
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Commercializing the Counterculture: The Monterey Pop Festival | |
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Riding the Storm | |
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Woodstock and Altamont: Reaching the Heights, Taking the Fall | |
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Music Versus Markets: The Fragmentation of Pop | |
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The Music Industry: A Sound Investment | |
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Merger Mania | |
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Expanding the Infrastructure: Counterculture as Commodity | |
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Creativity and Commerce: Rock as Art | |
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Sweeter Soul Music | |
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Singer/Songwriters, Soft Rock Solutions, and More | |
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Women's Music: The Feminist Alternative | |
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From Country Rock to Southern Boogie | |
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Mad with Power: Heavy Metal | |
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All That Glitters Does Not Sell Gold | |
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Punk and Disco: The Poles of Pop | |
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Punk Versus Disco | |
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Punk: Rock as (White) Noise | |
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Born in the USA | |
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Anarchy in the U.K. | |
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Flirtation with Fascism: The Underbelly of Punk | |
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Rock Against Racism: The Progressive Rejoinder | |
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Riding the New Wave | |
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Disco: The Rhythm without the Blues | |
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Proto-Disco: The Funk Connection | |
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Up from the Disco Underground | |
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Mainstream Disco: The Bee Gees Boogie Down | |
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The Hard-Rock Reaction | |
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Music Videos, Superstars, and Mega-Events: The Eighties | |
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Early Music Television: They Want Their MTV | |
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Superstars: The Road to Economic Recovery | |
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Charity Rock and Mega-Events: Who Is the World? | |
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Christmas in Ethiopia: The Advent of Charity Rock | |
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Mega-Events: The Politics of Mass Culture | |
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Technology and the New International Music Industry | |
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Rap and Metal: Youth Culture and Censorship | |
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The Continuing History of Heavy Metal | |
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Heavy Metal: The New Wave | |
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Metal Fragments | |
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Hip Hop, Don't Stop | |
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Old School Rap | |
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Hip Hop: The Next Generation | |
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Popular Music and the Politics of Censorship | |
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The Parents Music Resource Center | |
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The Issues: Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Revisited | |
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Alternative to What? | |
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Strange Bedfellows: Alternative and the Mainstream | |
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Marketing Categories and Monster Contracts | |
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Country and RandB: The Other Alternatives | |
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Lollapalooza: Countercultural Sensibilities, Mainstream Clout | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |