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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 Bo | |
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| 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 Kille | |
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| Blue Suede Shoe | |
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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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| The Teen Market: From Bandstan | |
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| to Girl Groups | |
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| Lost Idols | |
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| The Booming Teen Market | |
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| Dick Clark andAmerican 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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| 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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| 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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| Folk Rock | |
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| Dylan's Disenchantment | |
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| Folk Rock | |
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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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| Escaping into 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 M | |
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| 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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| Trickling Down with Ronald Reagan | |
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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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| Death 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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| Chillin' | |
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| Out | |
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| BritPop | |
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| The Hip-Hop Nation | |
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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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| The Return ofShaft | |
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| Hip-Hop Pop | |
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| New Jack Swing | |
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| Spice World | |
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| Hip Hop Grows Up | |
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| Metal Gumbo: Rockin' | |
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| in the Twenty-first Century | |
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| Nu-Metal Pioneers | |
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| The Rap-Rock Explosion | |
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| Progressive Metal | |
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| Nu-Metal Anthems | |
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| The Internet, Jam Bands and Three Shades of the Blues | |
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| The Age of the Internet | |
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| The Download Mania | |
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| The Reinvention of the Music Industry | |
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| Jam Bands | |
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| Life in Wartime | |
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| The Singers-Songwriters | |
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| Blues from the Garage | |
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| Black Metal | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |