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| Before 1950 | |
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| Technology, the dawn of modern popular music, and the "king of Jazz" | |
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| On wax | |
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| Big band swing music : race and power in the music business | |
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| Black music's on top; white Jazz stagnant | |
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| The dance band business : a study in black and white | |
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| Solo pop singers and "der bingle" | |
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| from Call me lucky | |
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| Hillbilly and race music | |
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| That's gold in them hillbillies | |
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| Blues people and the classic blues | |
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| from Blues people : the Negro experience in white America and the music that developed from it | |
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| The empress of the blues | |
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| from Hear me talkin' to ya : the story of Jazz as told by the men who made it | |
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| At the crossroads with Robert Johnson, as told by Johnny Shines | |
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| Interview with Johnny Shines | |
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| From race music to Rhythm and blues : T-Bone Walker | |
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| T-Bone Walker : father of the blues | |
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| Jumpin' the blues with Louis Jordan | |
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| Bands dug by the beat : Louis Jordan | |
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| from Honkers and shouters : the golden years of rhythm and blues | |
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| On the bandstand with Johnny Otis and Wynonie Harris | |
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| from Upside your head! : rhythm and blues on central avenue | |
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| Women won't let me alone | |
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| The producers answer back : the emergence of the "indie" record company | |
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| Indies' surprise survival : small labels' ingenuity and skill pay off | |
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| from Honkers and shouters : the golden years of rhythm and blues | |
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| Country music as folk music, country music as novelty | |
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| American folk tunes : cowboy and hillbilly tunes and tunesters | |
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| Corn of plenty | |
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| The 1950s | |
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| Country music approaches the mainstream | |
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| Country music goes to town | |
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| Hank Williams on songwriting | |
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| from How to write folk and western music to sell | |
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| Rhythm and blues in the early 1950s : B. B. King | |
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| from Honkers and shouters : the golden years of rhythm and blues | |
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| "The house that Ruth Brown built? | |
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| from Miss Rhythm : the autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and blues legend | |
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| Ray Charles, or when Saturday night mixed it up with Sunday morning | |
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| from Brother Ray : Ray Charles' own story | |
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| Jerry Wexler : a life in R&B | |
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| from Rhythm and the blues : a life in American music | |
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| The growing threat of rhythm and blues | |
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| Top names now singing the blues as newcomers roll on R&B tide | |
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| A warning to the music business | |
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| Langston Hughes responds | |
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| Highway robbery across the color line in rhythm and blues | |
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| from Rhythm and blues to rock 'n' roll : the songs of Chuck Berry | |
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| from Chuck Berry : the autobiography | |
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| Little Richard : boldly going where no man had gone before | |
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| from The life and times of little Richard : the quasar of rock | |
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| Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Rockabilly | |
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| Sam Phillips interview | |
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| Rock 'n' roll meets the popular press | |
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| Rock-and-roll called communicable disease | |
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| Yeh-heh-heh-hes, baby | |
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| Rock 'n' roll's pulse taken | |
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| Why they rock 'n' roll - and should they? | |
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| The Chicago defender defends rock 'n' roll | |
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| Bias against 'rock 'n' roll' latest bombshell in dixie | |
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| The music industry fight against rock 'n' roll : Dick Clark's teen-pop empire and the payola scandal | |
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| Music Biz goes round and round : it comes out Clarkola | |
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| Mr. Clark and colored payola | |
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| The 1960s | |
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| Brill building, the girl groups, and Phil spector | |
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| The first tycoon of teen | |
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| From surf to smile | |
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| from Wouldn't it be nice : my own story | |
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| Urban folk revival | |
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| Songs of the silent generation | |
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| Folk music : they hear America singing | |
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| Bringing it all back home : Dylan at Newport | |
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| Newport folk festival, 1965 | |
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| Newport folk festival, 1965 | |
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| "Chaos is a friend of mine | |
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| Bob Dylan interview | |
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| From R&B to soul | |
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| from The fire next time | |
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| from Rhythm and the blues : a life in American music | |
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| No town like motown | |
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| from To be loved : the music, the magic, the memories of motown | |
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| The Godfather of soul and the beginnings of funk | |
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| from The Godfather of soul | |
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| "The blues changes from day to day | |
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| Otis Redding interview | |
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| Aretha Franklin meets the mainstream | |
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| Lady soul : singing it like it is | |
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| The Beatles, the "British invasion," and cultural respectability | |
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| What songs the Beatles sang ... | |
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| Musicologically ... | |
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| A hard day's night | |
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| Bravo Beatles! | |
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| England swings, and the Beatles evolve on Revolver and Sgt. Pepper | |
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| Pop eye : on 'Revolver' | |
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| It's getting better ... | |
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| Art school and the British blues revival | |
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| Rebels with a beat | |
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| The Stones versus the Beatles | |
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| Records : rock, etc. - the big ones | |
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| If you're goin' to San Francisco ... | |
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| Dead like live thunder | |
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| Grace Slick, vocals, composer | |
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| The kozmic blues of Janis Joplin | |
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| We look at our parents and ... | |
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| Santana's psychedelic salsa | |
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| Call me Abraxas : Santana | |
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| Jimi Hendrix and the electronic guitar | |
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| Second dimension : Jimi Hendrix in action | |
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| Rock meets the avant-garde : Frank Zappa | |
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| Zappa and the mothers : ugly can be beautiful | |
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| Pop/bubblegum/Monkees | |
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| from Any old way you choose it : Rocka and other pop music, 1967-1973 | |
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| The aesthetics of rock | |
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| Get off of my cloud | |
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| Pop eye : evaluating media | |
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| Musical events - records : rock, etc | |
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| Festivals : the good, the bad, and the ugly | |
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| Review of various artists, Woodstock | |
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| Altamont, California, December 6, 1969 | |
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| The 1970s | |
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| Where did the sixties go? | |
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| Of pop and pies and fun | |
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| The sound of autobiography : singer-songwriters, James Taylor | |
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| James Taylor : one man's family of Rock | |
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| Joni Mitchell journeys within | |
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| Joni Mitchell : self-portrait of a superstar | |
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| Sly stone : "the myth of Staggerlee | |
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| from Mystery Train : images of America in rock 'n' roll music | |
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| Not-so-"little" Stevie Wonder | |
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| The formerly little Stevie Wonder | |
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| Parliament drops the bomb | |
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| George Clinton : ultimate liberator of constipated notions | |
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| Heavy metal meets the counterculture | |
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| Review of Led Zeppelin | |
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| Led Zeppelin speaks! | |
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| The Crunge : Jimmy Page gives a history lesson | |
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| "I have no message whatsovever" | |
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| David Bowie interview | |
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| Rock me Amadeus | |
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| Keith Emerson | |
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| from Yesstories : Yes in their own words | |
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| Jazz fusion | |
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| from Miles : the autobiography | |
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| Get on up disco | |
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| The dialectic of disco : Gay music goes straight | |
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| Punk : the sound of criticism? | |
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| A conservative impulse in the new rock underground | |
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| Punk crosses the Atlantic | |
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| Rebels against the system | |
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| Punk to new wave? | |
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| The B-52s' American graffiti | |
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| UK new wave | |
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| The Elvis (Costello, that is) interview | |
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| The 1980s | |
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| A "Second British invasion," MTV, and other postmodernist conundrums | |
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| Rock 'n' roller coaster : the music biz on a joyride | |
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| Thriller begets the "King of Pop" | |
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| I'm white! What's wrong with Michael Jackson | |
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| Madonna and the performance of identity | |
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| Venus of the radio waves | |
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| Madonnica | |
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| Bruce springsteen : reborn in the USA | |
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| Little Egypt from Asbury Park - and Bruce Springsteen don't crawl on his belly, neither | |
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| The real thing - Bruce Springsteen | |
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| R&B in the 1980s : to cross over or not to cross over? | |
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| from The death of Rhythm and Blues | |
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| Ain't no mountain high enough : the politics of crossover | |
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| Heavy metal thunders on! | |
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| Purity and power - total, unswerving devotion to heavy metal form : Judas Priest and the Scorpions | |
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| Metal in the late eighties : Glam or Thrash? | |
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| Metallica | |
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| Postpunk goes Indie | |
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| What is this thing called hardcore? | |
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| Indie brings the noise | |
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| Boys are smelly : Sonic Youth tour diary, '87 | |
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| Hip-hop, don't stop | |
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| B-beats bombarding Bronx : mobile DJ starts something with oldie R&B disks | |
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| Jive talking N.Y. DJs rapping away in black discos | |
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| Bad rap | |
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| "The music is a mirror" | |
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| Hip hop madness : from Def Jams to cold lampin', rap is our music | |
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| Girls ain't nothin' but trouble | |
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| Where rap and heavy metal converge | |
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| There's a new sound in pop music : bigotry | |
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| The 1990s and beyond | |
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| Hip-hop into the 1990s : gangstas, fly girls, and the big bling-bling | |
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| Fear of a rap planet | |
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| Nuthin' but a "G" thang | |
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| Snoop Dogg's gentle hip hop growl | |
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| Keeping it a little too real | |
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| Rap sheet | |
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| Party over | |
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| Town criers | |
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| Sample-mania | |
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| Sampling is (a) creative or (b) theft? | |
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| Women in rap | |
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| Hip-hop nation | |
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| The beat goes on | |
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| Eminem's old words aren't hip-hop's biggest problem | |
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| From Indie to alternative to ... Seattle? | |
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| A Seattle slew | |
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| Riot girl | |
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| Riot girl | |
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| Grunge turns to Scrunge | |
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| Over & out : Indie Rock values in the age of alternative million sellers | |
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| Two "postalternative" icons | |
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| A Dylan in slacker's clothing | |
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| The outer limits | |
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| "We are the world"? | |
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| Immigration and assimilation : Rai, Reggae, and Bhangramuffin | |
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| A Talking Head writes | |
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| Crossing music's borders : I have world music | |
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| Genre or gender? The resurgence of the singer-songwriter | |
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| Tori Amos : pain for sale | |
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| Public policy and pop music history collide | |
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| Empire of the air | |
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| Electronica is in the house | |
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| Historia electronica preface | |
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| Lorraine goes to livingston : a rave and regency romance | |
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| R&B divas go retro | |
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| The new conscience of pop music | |
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| What have we come to? : (on continuing moral panics in late 1990s' popular music and other strange developments) | |
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| Bay Area Goths say media has it wrong (many teens offended by snap association of subculture and suspects) | |
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| Is Shania Twain human | |
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