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American popular music : from minstrelsy to MP3 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Starr, Larry (Author), Waterman, Christopher Alan, 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Edition:Fifth edition.
Subjects:
Popular music > United States > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Timeline: 1760s-1899
  • Theme One: Listening
  • Theme Two: Music and Identity (Individuality, Gender, and Race)
  • Theme Three: Music and Technology
  • Theme Four: The Music Business
  • Theme Five: Centers and Peripheries
  • Streams of Tradition: The Sources of Popular Music
  • The Minstrel Show
  • An Early Pop Songwriter: Stephen Foster
  • Dance Music and Brass Bands
  • The Birth of Tin Pan Alley
  • The Ragtime Craze, 1896-1918
  • The Rise of the Phonograph
  • Timeline: 1900-1945
  • Technology and the Music Business
  • "Freak Dances": Turkey Trot and Tango
  • James Reese Europe and the Castles
  • Jazz as Popular Music: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the Creole Jazz Band, and Louis Armstrong
  • Dance Music in the "Jazz Age"
  • The Rise of Latin Dance Music: "El Manicero"
  • Tin Pan Alley Song Form
  • What Were Tin Pan Alley Songs About?
  • What Makes a Song a "Standard"?
  • Tin Pan Alley and Broadway
  • Race Records
  • Classic Blues
  • Understanding Twelve-Bar Blues
  • The Country Blues
  • Blind Lemon Jefferson: The First Country Blues Star
  • Robert Johnson: Standing at the Crossroad
  • Early Country Music: Hillbilly Records
  • Pioneers of Country Music: The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers
  • Popular Music and the Great Depression
  • Swing Music and American Culture
  • Benny Goodman: "The King of Swing"
  • Duke Ellington in the Swing Era
  • Kansas City Swing: Count Basie
  • Superstar of Swing: Glenn Miller
  • Jazz Singers: The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald
  • Vocal Harmony Groups
  • Country Music in the Swing Era: Roy Acuff, Singing Cowboys, and Western Swing
  • Latin Music in the Swing Era
  • ASCAP, the AFM, and the Decline of the Big Bands
  • Timeline: 1946-1979
  • Popular Music and Technology in the Postwar Era
  • The Rise of the Star Singers
  • Urban Folk Music: The Weavers
  • The Mambo Craze (1949-1955)
  • Southern Music in the Postwar Era
  • Rhythm & Blues
  • Vocal Harmony Groups
  • R&B Women: Ruth Brown and Big Mama Thornton
  • Country and Western Music
  • The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll
  • Cover Versions and Early Rock 'n' Roll
  • The Rock 'n' Roll Business
  • Early Rock 'n' Roll Stars on the R&B Side
  • Early Rock 'n' Roll Stars on the Country Side
  • Wild, Wild Young Women: Female Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers
  • The Latin Side of Rock 'n' Roll
  • Songwriters and Producers of Early Rock 'n' Roll
  • Other Currents: The Standard and Folk Music in the Rock 'n' Roll Era
  • The Early 1960s: Dance Music and "Teenage Symphonies"
  • Berry Gordy and Motown
  • Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys
  • The Beatles, the British Invasion, and the American Response
  • Meanwhile, Back in California
  • Latin Sounds in 1960s Pop: A Tall Man, a Tanned Girl, and a Taste of Honey
  • Patsy Cline and the Nashville Sound
  • Ray Charles and Soul Music
  • Sam Cooke, the "King of Soul"
  • James Brown and Aretha Franklin
  • The Broadway Musical in the Age of Rock
  • Urban Folk Music in the 1960s: Bob Dylan
  • The Counterculture and Psychedelic Rock
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  • Their Satanic Majesties: The Rolling Stones After Sgt. Pepper
  • San Francisco Rock: Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead
  • The Doors and "Light My Fire"
  • Guitar Heroes: Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton
  • Singer-Songwriters: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor
  • Country Music and the Pop Mainstream
  • Rock Comes of Age
  • "Night Fever": The Rise of Disco
  • The Outlaws: Progressive Country Music
  • "I Shot the Sheriff": The Rise of Reggae
  • The Rise of Salsa Music
  • "Psycho Killer": 1970s Punk and New Wave
  • "Tear the Roof off the Sucker": Funk Music
  • "Rapper's Delight": The Origins of Hip-Hop
  • Timeline: 1980-Today
  • Digital Technology and Popular Music
  • The Pop Mainstream of the 1980s: Some Representative Hits
  • A Tale of Three Albums
  • "Baby I'm a Star": Prince, Madonna, and the Production of Celebrity
  • Hip-Hop Breaks Out (1980s-1990s)
  • Commercialization, Diversification, and the Rise of Gangsta Rap (1990s)
  • Techno: Dance Music in the Digital Age
  • Alternate Currents
  • Women's Voices: Alternative Folk, Hip-Hop, and Country
  • Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music: Approaches to Tradition
  • Latina Superstars of the 1990s: Gloria Estefan and Selena
  • Globalization and the Rise of "World Music"
  • World Music Collaborations: Ali Farka Toure and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  • The Impact of Digital Recording
  • Music and the Internet: The Revolution Will Be Streamed
  • "On the Road Again": The New Popular Music Economy
  • Rock Music in the 2000s
  • Hip-Hop in the New Millennium
  • Hip-Hop Stars of the 2010s
  • Twenty-First Century Divas: We Never Go Out of Style
  • Conclusion: American Popular Music in the Age of Globalization.