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| The Prehistory of Rock & Roll | |
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| What Were the First Influences of Rock & Roll? | |
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| Mongrel Genealogy: The Ancestors of Rock & Roll | |
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| A Sheet-Music Economy and a New Mass-Market | |
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| The "Golden Age" of Tin Pan Alley: 1920s and 1930s | |
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| How Did New Technologies Influence Musical Styles? | |
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| Technological Breakthroughs Create a New Audience | |
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| Recording Takes Hold | |
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| Rock Places: Black Swan Records | |
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| Popular Music and the National Scene | |
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| Rock Technology: Electrical Recording | |
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| What Musical Styles Prefigured Rock & Roll? | |
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| The Jazz Craze | |
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| The Swing Bands Get in the Mood | |
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| Major Swing Bands and Bandleaders | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock | |
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| Race Records and the Blues | |
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| Surprise Hits Find a Market | |
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| Country Blues | |
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| "Classic" Blues and the Smoother Sound | |
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| How Did Crossover Hits Pave the Way for Rock & Roll? | |
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| Blues Goes Electric | |
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| Folk Begins with the Depression | |
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| Woody Guthrie | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! August 11, 1945 | |
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| Urban Folk: From Guthrie to Seeger | |
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| Classic Recordings: "Goodnight Irene," The Weavers (written by Lead Belly) | |
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| The Beginning of Country | |
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| The Carter Family | |
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| Hybrid Styles: Western Swing and Country-Lite | |
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| Bluegrass and Instrumental Proficiency | |
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| Rhythm & Blues | |
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| Rock People: Louis Jordan | |
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| Women and Rhythm & Blues | |
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| Post-war Crossovers Become Rock & Roll | |
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| The "Birth" of Rock & Roll (1951-1955) | |
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| Where Did Rock & Roll Come From? | |
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| The History of the Term | |
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| The Evolution of Rock & Roll | |
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| 1950s America: A Changing Country | |
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| A Changing Music | |
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| Rock Technology: The 45 | |
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| How Did Rock & Roll First Emerge in the United States? | |
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| The First Rock & Roll Records | |
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| "I've Got a Woman": Gospel Meets R&B | |
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| Classic Recordings: "I Got a Woman" | |
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| "Good Rockin' Tonight": R&B Meets the Party Animal | |
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| "Rocket '88": Rock & Roll Meets the Automobile | |
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| The First Rock & Roll Singers | |
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| The Fabulous Little Richard | |
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| Chuck Berry Plays, Sings, and Duck Walks | |
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| Rock Place: Sun Studio | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! 1956 | |
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| Elvis Aaron Presley | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock | |
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| Royalties and Rights | |
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| Jerry Lee Lewis | |
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| Carl Perkins | |
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| Classic Recordings: "That's All Right"/"Blue Moon of Kentucky" | |
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| How Was Rock & Roll Marketed? | |
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| Selling the Music | |
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| AM Radio | |
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| Alan Freed: Finding the Audience | |
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| DJ Dewey Phillips: Finding the Talent | |
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| Rock People:"Colonel" Tom Parker: Selling the Superstar | |
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| The Establishment Strikes Back (1954-1960) | |
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| How Did Rock & Roll Divide the Generations? | |
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| Rock Gets Its First "Black Eye" | |
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| Blackboard Jungle | |
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| The Teenage National Anthem | |
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| Top of the Charts: Billboard Top 100, July 9, 1955 | |
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| What Effect Did Scandals Have on Rock? | |
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| Another "Black Eye" for Rock: ASCAP vs. BMI | |
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| The Payola Scandal | |
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| Alan Freed and Dick Clark | |
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| Flashpoint: Issues in Rock | |
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| The End of Payola | |
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| In What Other Ways Was Rock Music Attacked in the 1950s? | |
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| Attack of the Musical Mainstream | |
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| The Plan of Attack | |
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| Classic Recordings: Let's All Sing with the Chipmunks by Alvin and the Chipmunks | |
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| Rock & Roll and the Red Scare | |
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| Rock Places: Washington, D.C. | |
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| What Nearly Killed Rock & Roll? | |
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| Domestication and the Near Death of Rock Music | |
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| Elvis Presley Meets Television | |
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| Classic Recordings: Elvis Presley by Elvis Presley | |
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| "Clean Teens" in Film | |
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| Rock's Deathbed | |
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| Jerry Lee Lewis | |
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| Rock Technology: Jukebox | |
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| The Day the Music Died | |
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| Rock People: Buddy Holly | |
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| Rock on Hiatus | |
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| American Bandstand, Teen Idols, and Race Lines (1957-1961) | |
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| How Did White Cover Artists "Hijack" Records by African American Artists? | |
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| Cover Versions | |
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| Hijacking Hits | |
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| Pat Boone | |
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| Bill Haley | |
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| Implications of White-Bread Pop | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock | |
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| Squeaky-Clean Teen Idols | |
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| American Bandstand | |
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| Rock People: Dick Clark | |
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| What Was the Impact of Teen Idols? | |
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| Teen Idols | |
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| The Brill Building Bunch | |
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| Top of the Charts: Billboard Hot 100 1959 | |
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| Musical Families | |
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| What Were the Early Influences of Surf Music? | |
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| Surfing U.S.A. | |
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| Early Surf | |
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| Rock Technology: The Fender Stratocaster, Fender Amp, and Fender Reverb Unit | |
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| How Did Motown Originate? | |
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| R&B Lives On | |
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| [huck Berry | |
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| Little Richard | |
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| Etta James 3 | |
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| Classic Albums:At Last! by Etta James | |
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| Doo-wop | |
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| One-Hit Wonder Groups | |
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| Beginnings of Motown | |
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| The Sound of Young America | |
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| Rock Places: Detroit | |
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| The Supremes | |
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| The Temptations | |
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| The Four Tops | |
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| Martha and the Vandellas | |
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| The Jackson Five | |
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| Changin' Times (1962-1966) | |
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| What Is Folk Music? | |
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| Folk's Roots | |
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| Folk Crosses the Color Line | |
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| Folk Gets Political | |
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| Woody Guthrie | |
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| Pete Seeger | |
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| The Kingston Trio | |
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| Classic Recordings: Time to Think by the Kingston Trio | |
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| How Did the Spirit of the 1960s Change Folk Music? | |
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| The Folk Revival of the 1960s | |
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| Dylan Embraces Folk | |
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| Rock Places: Greenwich Village, New York City | |
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| Dylan and the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Rock People: John Hammond | |
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| Joan Baez | |
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| Classic Recordings: I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs | |
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| The Lighter Side of Folk | |
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| Meanwhile, at the Beach | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! September 4, 1965 | |
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| Jan and Dean | |
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| The Beach Boys | |
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| Classic Recordings: Surfer Girl by the Beach Boys | |
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| Hot-Rod Music | |
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| How Did Folk Music Influence Emerging Rock & Roll Genres? | |
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| Folk Collides with Rock | |
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| Flashpoints-Issues in Rock: Dylan Plugs In | |
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| Dylan and the Brits | |
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| The Byrds | |
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| The Turtles | |
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| Simon and Garfunkel | |
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| The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter | |
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| Rock Technology: The Harmonica Neck Rack | |
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| The Canadian Invasion | |
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| Rock Before the Invasion | |
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| The British Invasion (1964-1966) | |
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| How Did British Bands Influence Rock in the 1960s? | |
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| The Skiffle Craze | |
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| Merseybeat | |
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| The Beatles and Beatlemania | |
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| Rock Places: Liverpool | |
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| Origins of the Beatles | |
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| Brian Epstein | |
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| Rock People: George Martin | |
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| The Road to America | |
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| Top of the Charts: Billboard Hot 100 April 4, 1964 | |
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| British Invasion Bands of the First Wave | |
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| The Rolling Stones | |
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| Classic Albums: Rubber Soul by the Beatles, Aftermath by the Rolling Stones | |
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| The Kinks | |
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| The Who | |
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| Rock Technology: The Stereo LP | |
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| The Animals | |
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| Herman's Hermits | |
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| The Zombies | |
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| The Yardbirds | |
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| Individual Performers | |
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| Petula Clark | |
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| Dusty Springfield | |
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| Donovan | |
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| What Was the American Reaction to the British Invasion? | |
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| The Colonies Fight Back! | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock | |
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| Gary Lewis and the Playboys | |
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| Paul Revere and the Raiders | |
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| The Monkees | |
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| What Ended the British Invasion? | |
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| The Summer of Love and Psychedelic Rock (1967-1969) | |
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| How Did the Hippie Movement Influence Rock Music in the Late 1960s? | |
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| Rock's Alliance with the Counterculture | |
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| Hippie Opposition to the Vietnam War | |
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| What Patterns Emerge when Comparing the Leading Bands of the 1960s? | |
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| The Grateful Dead | |
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| The Grateful Dead Live | |
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| Jefferson Airplane | |
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| Rock Places: San Francisco | |
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| Moby Grape | |
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| Janis Joplin | |
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| Jimi Hendrix | |
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| The Doors | |
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| Classic Albums: The Doors by the Doors | |
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| Love | |
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| Frank Zappa | |
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| Rock People: Bill Graham | |
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| 13th Floor Elevators | |
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| Pink Floyd | |
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| Rock Technology: Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) | |
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| How Did Music Festivals Define the Hippie Era? | |
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| Rock and the Counterculture | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! November 16, 1968 | |
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| The Festivals | |
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| The Human Be-In | |
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| The Monterey International Pop Music Festival | |
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| The Isle of Wight Festivals | |
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| The Woodstock Music & Art Fair | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock - The 27 Club | |
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| The Altamont Speedway Free Festival | |
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| How Did the Rise of Studio Craft Change Rock Music? | |
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| The Rise of Studio Craft | |
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| Pet Sounds | |
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| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | |
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| A British Blues Revival and Folk Goes Electric | |
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| John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers | |
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| Cream | |
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| Spencer Davis Group and Traffic | |
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| Fairport Convention and Pentangle | |
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| Sirens, Soul Singers, and Sellouts (1967-1975) | |
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| What Were the Musical Responses Produced by the Social Crises of the Late 1960s? | |
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| Protest Versus Soft Rock | |
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| Easy Listening Artists | |
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| Who Took | |
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| the Soul Revival? | |
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| The Soul Revival Takes Flight | |
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| Wattstax Music Festival | |
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| Riding on the Soul Train | |
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| Aretha Franklin | |
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| Rock Places: Philadelphia | |
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| What Were the Early Influences of Glam Rock? | |
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| The Origins of Glam | |
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| The Velvet Underground | |
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| David Bowie | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock - Rock as Performance Art | |
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| Marc Bolan | |
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| Mott the Hoople | |
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| Rock People: Iggy Pop | |
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| Queen | |
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| Elton John | |
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| What Led to the Rise of Heavy Metal and Progressive Rock? | |
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| The Rise of Heavy Metal | |
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| Led Zeppelin | |
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| Classic Albums: Led Zeppelin IV | |
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| Black Sabbath | |
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| Deep Purple | |
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| Progressive Rock | |
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| Progressive Rock and Art Rock | |
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| Yes | |
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| Genesis | |
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| Emerson, Lake and Palmer | |
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| Pink Floyd | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! April 28<sup>th</sup>, 1973 | |
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| Mike Oldfield | |
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| Stadium Rock | |
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| Bruce Springsteen: The Future of Rock & Roll? | |
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| Rock Technology: Multitrack Recording | |
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| Disco, Punk & New Wave: Strange Bedfellows (1973-1979) | |
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| How Did Disco Change the Music Scene during the 1970s? | |
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| Disco Dances In | |
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| The Producers | |
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| Dancing and Disco | |
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| Donna Summer: Queen of Disco | |
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| Chic | |
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| Barry White: The Sultan of Soul | |
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| Rock Places: Studio 54 | |
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| Saturday Night Fever , Hitmaker | |
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| The Village People | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock - Disco vs. Rock & Roll | |
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| What Were the Origins of the Punk Movement in American Musical Culture? | |
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| Punk Pre-History | |
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| Iggy Pop and the Stooges | |
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| Motor City Five (MC5) | |
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| The Velvet Underground | |
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| The New York Dolls 1 | |
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| Where Did Punk Begin? | |
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| New York City | |
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| Rock People: Patti Smith | |
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| The Ramones | |
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| London | |
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| The Sex Pistols | |
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| Classic Albums: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols by the Sex Pistols | |
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| The Clash | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! April 1, 1978 | |
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| How Did New Wave Emerge from the Death of Punk? | |
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| New Wave Rears Its Head | |
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| Classic Albums: My Aim is True by Elvis Costello | |
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| Public Image Limited (PiL)176 | |
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| Gang of Four | |
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| X-Ray Spex | |
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| The Slits | |
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| The Au Pairs | |
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| Joy Division | |
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| Rock Technology: Do It Yourself (DIY) Technology | |
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| The Jam | |
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| Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell, and Television | |
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| New Wave Goes Full Circle | |
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| New Wave & Synth Pop (1977-1987) | |
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| How Did Punk's Destructive Focus Create New Options for Later Musicians? | |
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| New Wave Takes Shape | |
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| New Wave in New York | |
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| Blondie and Television | |
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| Rock People: Hilly Kristal | |
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| What Role Did Britain Play in Crafting the New Wave Sound? | |
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| The British Post-Pistols | |
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| Elvis Costello | |
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| British Successes, Punk Holdouts, and New Wave | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! 1977 | |
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| Pure Pop in Britain and the United States | |
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| Synth Pop | |
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| Synthetic Dreams | |
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| Welcome to the Machine | |
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| Rock Technology: The Synthesizer | |
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| Die Mensch Maschine: Kraftwerk | |
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| Rock Places: Berlin | |
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| Ultravox | |
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| What Was the Place of Dance Music in Postpunk and New Wave? | |
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| Dance Pop: What Have I Done to Deserve This? | |
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| Classic Album: Pet Shop Boys, Actually | |
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| How Did MTV Change the Way that Music Was Received? | |
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| I Want My MTV | |
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| Video Made the TV Star | |
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| Video Kills the Radio Star | |
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| Flashpoints: Did Video Kill Rock? | |
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| The Band with a Thorn in its Side: The Smiths | |
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| Formation and Initial Success | |
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| Morrissey's Controversial Sexuality | |
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| Alternative Rock (1982-1987) | |
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| How Did Alternative Rock Get the Word Out? | |
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| Alternative Rock's Three Trajectories | |
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| Punk Attitude | |
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| College Radio | |
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| Indie Rock | |
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| U2: Band of the 1980s and Today | |
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| Rise to Stardom | |
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| Politics and Popularity | |
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| R.E.M.: Kings of College Rock | |
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| Michael Stipe: Breaking the Rock Star Mold | |
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| Classic Albums: Fables of the Reconstruction by R.E.M. | |
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| Cashing In or Selling Out? | |
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| Rock Places: Athens, Georgia | |
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| Selling Albums without Selling Out: Bruce Springsteen | |
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| How Did the Rock Underground Influence Rock during the 1980s? | |
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| American Hardcore Shakes Up the Musical Underground | |
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| Sonic Youth: Breaking the Noise Barrier | |
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| Bad Brains: Fusion Punk | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! August 8, 1987 | |
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| Teen Idles Kick Off a Movement | |
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| Minor Threat: Breaking the Age Limit | |
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| Fugazi Takes the Baton | |
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| Black Flag Declares War | |
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| Rock Technology: The Van | |
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| The Minutemen | |
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| Husker D�215 | |
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| England's Alternative to Alternative Rock | |
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| Kate Bush: Literary Pop | |
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| Classic Album: Hounds of Love by Kate Bush | |
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| Bauhaus Goes Goth | |
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| The Cure | |
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| How Did Alternative Rock Try to Change the World? | |
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| The Rock Benefit Concert | |
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| Rock People: Sir Bob Geldof | |
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| Live Aid, Farm Aid, and Band Aid | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock - Rock with a Purpose | |
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| American Punk: The Second Wave (1987-1994) | |
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| What Elements Did Grunge Borrow from Punk Rock to Make a New Musical Genre? | |
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| Beginnings of a Seattle Scene | |
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| Hardcore Punk and Grunge | |
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| Source of Inspiration: The Pixies | |
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| Abrasive and Melodic | |
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| Alternative Precursors: The Butthole Surfers | |
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| What Were the Most Important Bands that Grew Out of the Seattle Scene? | |
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| Seattle Goes Subterranean | |
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| Early Seattle Bands | |
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| The Melvins | |
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| Soundgarden | |
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| Green River and Mudhoney | |
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| Rock People: Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman (Sub Pop Records) | |
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| Nirvana | |
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| Nevermind the Labels | |
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| Classic Albums: Nirvana's Nevermind | |
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| In Utero and Cobain's Suicide | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! - November 6, 1993 | |
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| How Were Other Simultaneous Movements Affected by Grunge? | |
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| Rock Places: Olympia, Washington | |
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| Bikini Kill | |
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| Other Seattle Riots | |
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| Oregon Grrrls | |
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| Courtney Love and Hole | |
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| Flashpoints in Rock: Huggy Bear and the Barbi Twins on the BBC | |
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| Babes in Toyland | |
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| Rock Technology: The MP3 | |
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| Hip-Hop and Rap (1973- ) | |
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| How Did Hip Hop Get Its Start? | |
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| Old-School Hip Hop (c. 1979-1984) | |
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| Rock Places: South Bronx | |
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| How Did Hip Hop Gain Mainstream Recognition? | |
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| New-School Hip Hop (c. 1983)246 | |
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| Rock Technology: "Two Turntables and a Microphone" and "The Wheels of Steel" | |
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| Rap's Golden Age (late 1980s-early 1990s) | |
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| Classic Albums: Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy | |
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| What Are The Different Branches of Hip Hop and Rap? | |
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| N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton (1988) | |
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| Tupac Shakur (a.k.a. 2Pac)252 | |
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| The Notorious B.I.G.253 | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock - The Murder of Tupac Shakur | |
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| Jay-Z254 | |
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| House of Pain | |
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| The Wu-Tang Clan | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! November 28, 1998 | |
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| Rock People: Sean "Puffy" Combs | |
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| DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince | |
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| MC Hammer | |
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| Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch | |
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| From Between the Coasts | |
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| Atlanta Hip Hop | |
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| The Midwest and New Orleans | |
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| Across the Atlantic | |
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| Rap Rock, Rap Metal, and Rapcore | |
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| Smooth Sounds, Slick Packaging: The Persistence of Pop (1994-) | |
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| Why Was 1994 an Important Year in the History of Rock Music? | |
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| 194: Woodstock's 25th Anniversary | |
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| Did the Death of Kurt Cobain Equal the Death of Rock?266 | |
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| Since 1994: Three Main Streams in Rock & Roll | |
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| Domestication of Rock & Roll | |
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| Rock Technology: Pro-Tools and Music Editing in the Recording Studio | |
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| How Have Girl Groups and Boy Bands Influenced the History of Rock? | |
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| Girl Groups | |
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| Occasional Revivals of the Girl Group | |
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| The Spice Girls | |
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| Destiny's Child | |
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| Classic Albums: Survivor by Destiny's Child | |
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| Britney Spears | |
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| Christina Aguilera | |
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| Jessica Simpson | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock - Lip-Synching | |
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| Backstreet Boys | |
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| N Sync | |
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| Rock People: Lou Pearlman | |
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| 998 | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! 1999 | |
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| Westlife | |
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| The Pop Idol Phenomenon | |
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| Simon Cowell | |
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| How Has Rock & Roll Been Changed by Aggressive Marketing to Younger Audiences? | |
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| The Disneyfication of Pop Rock | |
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| Miley Cyrus | |
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| The Jonas Brothers | |
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| Rock Places: Los Angeles | |
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| The High School Musical Franchise | |
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| Hyphenated-Rock & Explorations of the Postmodern Self (1994-) | |
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| How Did a New Generation Update Some Older Styles of Rock & Roll? | |
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| Progressive Rock, Reborn | |
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| Radiohead | |
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| Coldplay | |
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| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | |
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| Rock Places: Oxford, UK | |
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| Sigur R�s | |
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| TV on the Radio | |
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| Classic Albums: Return to Cookie Mountain by TV on the Radio | |
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| Neo-Psychedelia | |
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| The Dandy Warhols | |
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| The Flaming Lips | |
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| How Did Rock & Roll Become Even More Personal? | |
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| Emo: The New Confessionalism | |
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| Pop Successes | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! - October 8, 2005 | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock - Selling Out | |
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| How Does Rock & Roll Continue to Update Itself? | |
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| N� Metal | |
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| Tool | |
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| Rage Against the Machine | |
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| Godsmack | |
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| Classic Albums: Evil Empire by Rage Against the Machine | |
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| Korn | |
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| Rock People: Marilyn Manson | |
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| Slipknot | |
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| Linkin Park | |
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| Garage Rock Revival | |
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| The White Stripes | |
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| The Strokes | |
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| Babyshambles | |
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| The Arctic Monkeys | |
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| The Yeah Yeah Yeahs | |
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| Defying All Categories: PJ Harvey | |
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| Remix Culture | |
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| What Is the Role of Appropriation in Popular Music? | |
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| Remixes and Mashups | |
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| Visual Predecessors | |
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| Fair Use | |
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| Beg, Borrow, and Steal: The Legacy of Appropriation in Popular Music | |
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| Cover Songs | |
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| What Was the Impact of the Digital Sampler? | |
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| A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That: Sampling | |
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| Sampling in Hip-Hop | |
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| Sampling in Electronica | |
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| Jailhouse Rock: Legal Roadblocks to Sampling | |
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| What Price Beats?309 | |
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| Rock Technology: The MP3 | |
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| What Was Napster and How Did It Affect Digital Distribution? | |
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| iPod People | |
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| Digital Distribution | |
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| Rock People: Shawn Fanning | |
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| Mashups | |
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| Classic Albums: The Grey Album by Danger Mouse/ Feed the Animals by Girl Talk | |
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| This One's on Me: More Free Digital Distribution | |
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| Mix Tapes to iPod Playlists | |
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| Top of the Charts: What's Hot! September 19, 2009 | |
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| Music Festivals | |
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| A Return to the 1970s? | |
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| Flashpoints: Issues in Rock - RIAA Lawsuits | |
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| Rock Places: Your Parents' Basement | |
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| Activate Star Power: Rock Band and Guitar Hero | |
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| The Rock Nation | |