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| Preface | |
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| The Folk Ballad: Storytelling in Song | |
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| Form Follows Function: the Anglo-American Folk Ballad | |
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| Folk Song Collectors and Ballad Scholars: Outsiders Look in | |
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| Ballad Stories and the Oral Tradition | |
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| The Broadside Ballad: Journalism in Song | |
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| New Country, New Ballads (and a Lot of Old Ones, Too) | |
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| Folk Ballads and Popular Culture | |
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| The African-American Narrative Song Tradition | |
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| Corridos: Spanish Ballads in the New World | |
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| Woody Guthrie: Father of the Modern Folk Ballad | |
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| Protest and Propaganda | |
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| Hootenannies and the Hit Parade | |
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| The Folk Revival of the Sixties | |
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| Activities and Projects | |
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| In the Beginning ... There Was the Blues | |
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| The Birth of the Blues | |
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| The Country Blues: A Regional Guide | |
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| Blues Lyrics and Themes | |
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| The Classic Blues: Women in the Spotlight | |
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| Race Records | |
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| Enter Bessie Smith and Ma: Blues Royalty on Records | |
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| Field Recording: Country Blues on Location | |
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| Blues in the 1930s: Out With the Old, In With the New | |
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| Muddy Waters and the Birth of the Big City Blues | |
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| Pioneers of Electricity | |
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| The Blues Had a Baby and They Named it Rock 'n' Roll | |
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| Activities and Projects | |
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| Jazz: The Sound of a New Century | |
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| New Orleans: Birthplace of Jazz | |
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| Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz | |
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| 1917: Jazz on Record and on the Move | |
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| The Jazz Age: Putting the Sin in Syncopation | |
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| The Swing Era: Setting the Stage | |
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| Benny Goodman: King of Swing | |
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| Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got that Swing | |
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| Count Basie: Last of the Blue Devils | |
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| Lady Day | |
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| The Bebop Revolution | |
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| Changes on the Street | |
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| Jazz at Mid-Century: Diversity and Divisiveness | |
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| The Avant Garde: Out of the Mainstream | |
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| Fusion: Jazz Plugs In | |
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| Back to the Future: Whynton Marsalis and Neomainstream Jazz | |
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| Activities and Projects | |
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| R and B, Rockabilly, Rock 'n' Roll and Rock | |
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| Hail, Hail Rock 'n' Roll | |
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| Elvis Presley: Enter the King | |
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| The Death of Rock 'n' Roll: Myth and Reality | |
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| The Motown Empire: Hitsville, U.S.A. | |
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| Atlantic Records and the Story of Soul | |
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| Stax Records: Soulsville, U.S.A. | |
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| Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul | |
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| James Brown: Godfather of Soul | |
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| The Tami Show: Celluloid Time Capsule (In Black and White) | |
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| The British Are Coming ... | |
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| The Folk Revival: Music With a Social Conscience | |
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| From Rock 'n' Roll to Rock | |
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| High Art/Big Business | |
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| Supergroups and Guitar Heroes | |
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| Woodstock Nation: Three Days of Peace and Music | |
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| Activities and Projects | |
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| Rock: From the Me Decade to the Millennium | |
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| The Seventies: The Rise of Corporate Rock | |
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| Heavy Metal: The Devil and the Power Chord | |
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| The Singer-Songwriter: Poet Laureate of the Me Decade | |
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| Art Rock: No Longer a Contradiction in Terms | |
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| Black Music in the Seventies: Many Nations Under a Groove | |
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| Rock at Mid-Decade: From the Mainstream to the Margins | |
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| Disco Fever | |
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| The Eighties and the Triumph of Pop | |
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| Girls Just Want to Have Fun | |
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| Metal Health in the 1990s | |
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| Alternative to What? | |
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| Rockin' at the End of the Millennium | |
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| Activities and Projects | |
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| Rap: Talking Drum of the Global Village | |
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| To the Hip-Hop | |
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| Everybody's Rapping: From Rhythm to Rhyme | |
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| Rap on Wax: The First Generation | |
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| Hip-Hop Nation: Into the Mainstream | |
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| Gangsta Rap: Street Journalism or Action-Film Fantasy? | |
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| Rap Goes Pop | |
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| Rap Goes Co-Ed | |
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| Rap at the Millennium: Funerals and Fragmentation | |
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| Activities and Projects | |
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| Sound Sources | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |