The pop, rock, and soul reader : histories and debates /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Irving Berlin in Tin Pan Alley
- Technology, the dawn of modern popular music, and the "king of Jazz"
- Big band swing music : race and power in the music business
- Solo pop singers and new forms of fandom
- Hillbilly and race music
- Blues people and the classic blues
- The empress of the blues
- At the crossroads with Robert Johnson, as told by Johnny Shines
- From race music to Rhythm and blues : T-Bone Walker
- Jumpin' the blues with Louis Jordan
- On the bandstand with Johnny Otis and Wynonie Harris
- The producers answer back : the emergence of the "indie" record company
- Country music as folk music, country music as novelty
- Country music approaches the mainstream
- Hank Williams on songwriting
- Rhythm and blues in the early 1950s : B.B. King
- "The house that Ruth Brown built"
- Ray Charles, or when Saturday night mixed it up with Sunday morning
- Jerry Wexler : a life in R&B
- The growing threat of rhythm and blues
- Langston Hughes responds
- from Rhythm and blues to rock 'n' roll : the songs of Chuck Berry
- Little Richard : boldly going where no man had gone before
- Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Rockabilly
- Rock 'n' roll meets the popular press
- The Chicago defender defends rock 'n' roll
- The music industry fight against rock 'n' roll : Dick Clark's teen-pop empire and the payola scandal
- Brill building and the girl groups
- From surf to smile
- Urban folk revival
- Bringing it all back home : Dylan at Newport
- "Chaos is a friend of mine"
- From R&B to soul
- No town like Motown
- The Godfather of soul and the beginnings of funk
- "The blues changes from day to day"
- Aretha Franklin earns respect
- The Beatles, the "British invasion," and cultural respectability
- A hard day's night and Beatlemania
- England swings, and the Beatles evolve on Revolver and Sgt. Pepper
- The British art school blues
- The Stones versus the Beatles
- If you're goin' to San Francisco--
- The kozmic blues of Janis Joplin
- Jimi Hendrix and the electronic guitar
- Rock meets the avant-garde : Frank Zappa
- Pop/bubblegum/Monkees
- The aesthetics of rock
- Festivals : the good, the bad, and the ugly
- Where did the sixties go?
- The sound of autobiography : singer-songwriters, Carole King
- Joni Mitchell journeys within
- Sly Stone : "the myth of Staggerlee"
- Not-so-"little" Stevie Wonder
- Parliament drops the bomb
- Heavy metal meets the counterculture
- Led Zeppelin speaks!
- "I have no message whatsovever"
- Rock me, Amadeus
- Jazz fusion
- Get on up disco
- Punk : the sound of criticism?
- Punk crosses the Atlantic
- Punk to new wave?
- UK new wave
- A "second British invasion," MTV, and other postmodernist conundrums
- Thriller begets the "King of Pop"
- Madonna and the performance of identity
- Bruce Springsteen : reborn in the USA
- R&B in the 1980s : to cross over or not to cross over?
- Heavy metal thunders on!
- Metal in the late eighties : glam or thrash?
- Postpunk goes Indie
- Indie brings the noise
- Hip-hop, don't stop
- "The music is a mirror"
- Where rap and heavy metal converge
- Hip-hop into the 1990s : gangstas, fly girls, and the big bling-bling
- Nuthin' but a "G" thang
- Keeping it a little too real
- Sample-mania
- Women in rap
- The beat goes on
- From Indie to alternative to--
- Riot girl
- Grunge turns to scrunge
- A "postalternative icon"
- "We are the world"?
- A Talking Head writes
- Genre or gender? The resurgence of the singer-songwriter
- Public policy and pop music history collide
- Electronica is in the house
- R&B divas go retro
- Fighting the power in a post-9/11 mediascape: the Dixie Chicks
- The end of history, the mass marketing of trivia, and a world of copies without originals.