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| Preface to the Revised Edition | |
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| Introduction: "What's Going On" | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| "A Change Is Gonna Come": Mahalia Jackson, Motown, and the Movement | |
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| The Dream | |
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| Mahalia and the Movement | |
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| "The Soul of the Movement": Calls and Responses | |
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| Motown: Money, Magic, and the Mask | |
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| The Big Chill vs. Cooley High: Two out of Three Falls for the Soul of Motown | |
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| The Gospel Impulse | |
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| Sam Cooke and the Voice of Change | |
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| Solid Gold Coffins: Phil Spector and the Girl Group Blues | |
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| SAR and the Ambiguity of Integration | |
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| "The Times They Are A-Changin'": Port Huron and the Folk Revival | |
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| Woody and Race | |
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| "Blowin' in the Wind": Politics and Authenticity | |
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| Music and the Truth: The Birth of Southern Soul | |
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| Down at the Crossroads | |
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| The Blues Impulse | |
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| Soul Food: The Mid-South Mix | |
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| Dylan, the Brits, and Blue-Eyed Soul | |
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| The Minstrel Blues | |
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| Otis, Jimi, and the Summer of Love: From Monterey to Woodstock | |
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| Last Thoughts on the Dream: Dot and Diana | |
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| "Love or Confusion?": Black Power, Vietnam, and the Death of the Dream | |
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| Sly in the Smoke | |
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| Death Warrants: LBJ, Martin, and the Liberal Collapse | |
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| "All Along the Watchtower": Jimi Hendrix and the Sound of Vietnam | |
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| 'Retha, Rap, and Revolt | |
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| "Spirit in the Dark": Aretha's Gospel Politics | |
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| Jazz Warriors: Malcolm and Coltrane | |
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| The Jazz Impulse | |
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| "Black Is an' Black Ain't": JB, Miles, and Jimi | |
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| Curtis Mayfield's Gospel Soul | |
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| John Fogerty and the Mythic South | |
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| "Trouble Comin' Every Day": Southern Strategies and the Revolution on TV | |
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| Troubled Souls: Wattstax and Motown (West) | |
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| "Where Is the Love?": Donny Hathaway and the End of the Dream | |
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| "I Will Survive": Disco, Irony, and the Sound of Resistance | |
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| Reflections in a Mirror Ball | |
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| Reverend Green and the Return of Jim Crow | |
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| Demographics 101: Hard Times in Chocolate City | |
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| Black Love in the Key of Life | |
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| Jimmy Carter and the Great Quota Disaster of 1978 | |
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| Roots: The Messages in the Music | |
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| God Love Sex: Disco and the Gospel Impulse | |
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| Disco Sucks | |
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| Punks and Pretenders | |
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| Rebellion or Revolution: Bruce Springsteen and the Clash | |
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| P-Funkentelechy | |
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| Redemption Songs: Bob Marley in Babylon | |
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| The Message: Hip-hop and the South Bronx | |
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| "And That's the Way That It Is": The Reagan Rules, Hip-hop, and the Megastars | |
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| Welcome to the Terrordome | |
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| Springsteen and the Reagan Rules | |
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| The Problem of Healing in the Hall of Mirrors | |
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| The View from Black America | |
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| The Way It Was and the Way It Is | |
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| Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby | |
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| Run-D.M.C. Negotiates the Mainstream | |
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| "A Hero to Most": Elvis in the Eighties | |
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| Megastardom and Its Discontents: Michael and Madonna | |
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| Duke Ellington for Our Time: The Symbol Formerly Known as Prince | |
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| West Africa Is in the House | |
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| "Bring the Noise": The New School Rap Game | |
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| "Know the Ledge": KRS-One, Rakim, and the Gangstas | |
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| "Born in the U.S.A.": Springsteen and Race | |
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| "Holler If Ya Hear Me": In the Nineties Mix | |
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| Wasteland of the Free | |
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| American Dreaming | |
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| C.R.E.A.M., or, Tupac on Death Row | |
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| No More Drama: Mary J. Blige and the Hip Hop Generation | |
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| The Gospel Impulse Gets Crunk: OutKast and the Dirty South | |
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| Ozomatli and the Myth of Purity: Notes on the Browning of America | |
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| The Gospel Impulse (Remixed): Bruce Springsteen, Kirk Franklin, and Lauryn Hill | |
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| Notes | |
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| Playlist | |
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| Index | |