American popular music : new approaches to the twentieth century /
Designed as a broad introductory survey, and written by experts in the field, this book examines the rise of American music over the past hundred years--the period in which that music came into its own and achieved unprecedented popularity. Beginning with a look at music as a business, eleven essays...
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Amherst [Mass.] :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- They work hard for their money: the business of popular music / David Sanjek
- Tin Pan Alley and the Black-Jewish nation / Jeffrey Melnick
- How I got to Memphis: the blues and the study of American culture / James Smethurst
- Listening to jazz / Geoffrey Jacques
- Sing me back home: nostalgia, Bakersfield, and modern Country music / Rachel Rubin
- Off the charts: outrage and exclusion in the eruption of rock and roll / Reebee Garofalo
- Another man is beating my time: gender and sexuality in rhythm and blues / Mark Anthony Neal
- One hundred years of Black Gospel quartet singing / Kip Lornell
- Contextualizing rap / Gail Hilson Woldu
- The folk revival: beyond Child's canon and Sharp's song catching / Millie Rahn
- Polka contrabandista: Mexican ballads in the modern age / Elijah Wald.