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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Themes and Streams of American Popular Music | |
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| Listening | |
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| Music and Identity | |
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| Music and Technology | |
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| The Music Business | |
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| Centers and Peripheries | |
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| Streams of Tradition: The Sources of Popular Music | |
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| "After the Ball": Popular Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | |
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| The Minstrel Show | |
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| An Early Pop Songwriter: Stephen Foster | |
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| Dance Music and Brass Bands | |
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| The Birth of Tin Pan Alley | |
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| The Ragtime Craze, 1896-1918 | |
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| The Rise of the Phonograph | |
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| Catching as the Small-Pox": Social Dance and Jazz, 1917-1935 | |
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| Technology and the Music Business | |
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| "Freak Dances": Turkey Trot and Tango | |
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| James Reese Europe and the Castles | |
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| The Jazz Craze | |
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| Jazz Becomes Popular Music: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band | |
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| Dance Music in the "Jazz Age" | |
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| "The King of Jazz" | |
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| "I Got Rhythm": The Golden Age of Tin Pan Alley Song | |
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| Tin Pan Alley Song Form | |
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| What Were Tin Pan Alley Songs About? | |
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| What Makes a Song a "Standard"? | |
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| "St. Louis Blues': Race Records and Hillbilly Music | |
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| Race Records | |
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| Classic Blues | |
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| The Country Blues | |
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| Charley Patton and "Tom Rushen Blues" (1929) | |
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| Blind Lemon Jefferson: The First Country Blues Star | |
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| Robert Johnson: Standing at the Crossroad | |
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| Early Country Music: Hillbilly Records | |
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| Pioneers of Country Music: The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers | |
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| Popular Music and the Creat Depression | |
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| "In the Mood": The Swing Era, 1935-1945 | |
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| Swing Music and American Culture | |
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| Benny Goodman: The King of Swing | |
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| Big Band Blues: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller | |
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| Country Music in the Swing Era: Roy Acuff, Singing Cowboys, and Western Swing | |
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| "Choo Choo Ch'boogie": The Postwar Era, 1946-1954 | |
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| Popular Music and Technology in the Postwar Era | |
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| Rise of the Big Singers | |
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| Urban Folk Music: The Weavers | |
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| Southern Music in the Postwar Era | |
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| Rhythm & Blues | |
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| Women in R&B: Ruth Brown and Big Mama Thornton | |
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| Country and Western Music | |
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| Hank Williams | |
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| "Rock Around the Clock": Rock 'n' Roll, 1954-1959 | |
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| Cover Versions and Early Rock 'n' Roll | |
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| The Rock 'n' Roll Business | |
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| Early Rock 'n' Roll Stars on the R&B Side | |
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| Early Rock 'n' Roll Stars on the Country Side | |
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| Wild, Wild Young Women: The Lady Vanishes | |
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| Songwriters and Producers of Early Rock 'n' Roll | |
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| "Good Vibrations": American Pop and the British Invasion, 1960s | |
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| The Early 1960s: Dance Music and "Teenage Symphonies" | |
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| Berry Gordy and Motown | |
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| Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys | |
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| The Beatles, the British Invasion, and the American Response | |
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| "Blowin' in the Wind": Country, Soul, Urban Folk, and the Rise of Rock, 1960s | |
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| Patsy Cline and the Nashville Sound | |
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| Ray Charles and Soul Music | |
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| James Brown and Aretha Franklin | |
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| Urban Folk Music in the 1960s: Bob Dylan | |
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| The Counterculture and Psychedelic Rock | |
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| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | |
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| San Francisco Rock: Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead | |
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| Guitar Heroes: Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton | |
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| The 1970s: Rock Music, Disco, and the Popular Mainstream | |
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| Country Music and the Pop Mainstream | |
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| Rock Comes of Age | |
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| "Night Fever": The Rise of Disco | |
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| Outsiders' Music: Progressive Country, Reggae, Punk, Funk, and Rap, 1970s | |
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| The Outlaws: Progressive Country Music | |
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| "I Shot the Sheriff": The Rise of Reggae | |
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| "Psycho Killer": 1970s Punk and New Wave | |
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| "Tear the Roof Off the Sucker": Funk Music | |
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| "Rapper's Delight": The Origins of Hip-Hop | |
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| The 1980s: Digital Technology, MTV, and the Popular Mainstream | |
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| Digital Technology and Popular Music | |
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| A Tale of Three Albums | |
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| "Baby I'm a Star": Prince, Madonna, and the Production of Celebrity | |
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| "Smells Like Teen Spirit": Hip-Hop, "Alternative" Music, and the Entertainment Business | |
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| Hip-Hop Breaks Out (1980s-1990s) | |
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| Techno: Dance Music in the Digital Age | |
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| Alternate Currents | |
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| Women's Voices: Alternative Folk, Hip-Hop, and Country | |
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| Globalization and the Rise of World Music | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Music and Identity | |
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| Technology and the Music Business | |
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| Centers and Peripheries | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |
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| CD TrackList | |