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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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The Blues, Rock-and-Roll, and Racism | |
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The Birth of the Blues | |
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From the Rural South to the Urban North | |
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Muddy Waters and Chicago R&B | |
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The Wolf | |
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Other Chess Discoveries | |
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The Independent Sweepstakes | |
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The R&B Market | |
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From R&B to Rock-and-Roll: Little Richard and Chuck Berry | |
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Social Change and Rock-and-Roll | |
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Racist Backlash | |
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The Music Industry versus Rock-and-Roll | |
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The Blanching of Rock | |
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The Story of Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup | |
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Elvis and Rockabilly | |
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Rockabilly Roots | |
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The Rockabilly Sound | |
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Sun Records and Elvis | |
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"The Killer" | |
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"Blue Suede Shoes" | |
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Johnny Cash | |
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The Sun Rockabilly Stable | |
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The Decca Challenge | |
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Rockabilly Sweeps the Nation | |
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The Selling of Elvis Presley | |
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Reactions Against the Presley Mania | |
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Elvis Goes to Hollywood | |
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Dick Clark, Don Kirshner, and the Teen Market | |
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Lost Idols | |
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The Booming Teen Market | |
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Dick Clark and American Bandstand | |
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Clark's Creations | |
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The Payola Investigation | |
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Don Kirshner Takes Charge | |
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The Sounds on the Streets | |
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The Girl Groups | |
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The Dream | |
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Surfboards and Hot Rods: California, Here We Come | |
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The New American Empire | |
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Surfing U.S.A. | |
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The Sound of the Surf | |
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The Beach Boys | |
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Jan and Dean | |
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Drag City | |
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Bob Dylan and the New Frontier | |
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Songs of Protest | |
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The Folk Revival | |
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Civil Rights in a New Frontier | |
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Bob Dylan: The Music of Protest | |
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Joan Baez | |
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The Singer-Activists | |
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Dylan's Disenchantment | |
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Folk Rock | |
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The British Invasion of America: The Beatles | |
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The Mods, the Rockers, and the Skiffle Craze | |
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The Early Beatles | |
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Manager Brian Epstein | |
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The Toppermost of the Poppermost | |
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The Beatles Invade America | |
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The Mersey Beat | |
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The Monkees | |
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The British Blues Invasion and Garage Rock | |
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British Blues and the Rolling Stones | |
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The Stones Turn Raunchy | |
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Success | |
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The Who | |
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The British Blues Onslaught | |
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American Garage Rock | |
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Motown: The Sound of Integration | |
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Motown: The Early Years | |
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Civil Rights in the Great Society | |
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The Sound of Integration | |
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The Supremes on the Assembly Line | |
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The Motown Stable | |
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Acid Rock | |
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The Beats | |
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The Reemergence of the Beats: The New York Connection | |
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The Haight-Ashbury Scene | |
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The Hippie Culture | |
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Acid Rock: The Trip Begins | |
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Rock-and-Roll Revolution | |
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Psychedelic London | |
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The Decline and Fall of Hippiedom | |
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Fire from the Streets | |
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Soul Music | |
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Black Soul in White America | |
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Militant Blues on Campus | |
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Campus Unrest | |
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The Psychedelic Blues | |
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Heavy Metal Thunder | |
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The Rebirth of the Blues | |
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Woodstock and the End of an Era | |
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Soft Sounds of the Seventies | |
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Miles Ahead | |
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Sweet Seventies Soul | |
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Classical Rock | |
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Back to the Country | |
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Seventies Folk | |
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The Era of Excess | |
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The "Me" Decade | |
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Elton John | |
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Heavy-metal Theater | |
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Art Pop in the Arena | |
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Funk from Outer Space | |
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Disco | |
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Corporate Rock | |
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Punk Rock and the New Generation | |
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New York Punk | |
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The Sex Pistols and British Punk | |
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The British Punk Legion | |
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Rock Against Racism | |
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The Jamaican Connection: Reggae and Ska | |
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The Independent Labels | |
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Right-Wing Reaction | |
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The Decline of Punk | |
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Post-Punk Depression | |
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The New Wave | |
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I Want My MTV | |
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MTV and the Video Age | |
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The New Romantics | |
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MTV Goes Electro-Pop | |
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MTV and Michaelmania | |
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The Jackson Legacy | |
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Pop Goes the Metal | |
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The Promise of Rock-and-Roll | |
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The Boss | |
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The Benefits | |
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Children of the Sixties | |
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Classic Rock and the Compact Disc | |
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Country Boomers | |
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The Generation X Blues | |
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The Hardcore Generation | |
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Thrash Metal | |
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The Industrial Revolution | |
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Grunge | |
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The Rave Revolution and Britpop | |
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House and Techno | |
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A Rave New World | |
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The Dark Side of the Jungle | |
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Armchair Techno | |
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BritPop | |
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The Many Faces of Hip-Hop | |
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The Old School | |
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The Second Wave | |
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Gangsta | |
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Young, Gifted, and Black | |
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Techno Hop | |
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Trip-Hop | |
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The Return of Shaft | |
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Hip-Hop Pop | |
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Spice World | |
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Metal Gumbo: Rockin' in the Twenty-first Century | |
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Nu-Metal Pioneers | |
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The Rap-Rock Explosion | |
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Nu-Metal Anthems | |
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The Rock Industry in the Age of the Internet | |
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Music, Politics, and Rock Against Bush | |
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Music, Politics, and Social Activism | |
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Celebrity Politics | |
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Rock Against Bush | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |