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Examines the social and business sides of rock history
Rockin' Out: Popular Music In the U.S.A., 6/e, analyzes the music and business of rock ‘n roll. This comprehensive, introductory text takes readers from the invention of the phonograph to the promise of the Internet. Topics include: the rise of television idols, the proliferation of alternative sounds, and the influence of digital production techniques.
Reebee Garofalo is Professor Emeritus at UMass Boston, where he taught for 33 years. His most recent book is Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA. He has written numerous articles on popular music for popular as well as scholarly publications and has lectured internationally on a broad range of subjects relating to the operations of the music industry. Garofalo has been active in promoting popular music studies internationally, as a member of the Executive Committee and past Chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US, and an editor for several popular music journals, including the Journal of Popular Music Studies. At the local level, Garofalo serves on the organizing committee for the HONK! Festival, an annual gathering of activist street bands. For relaxation, he enjoys drumming and singing with the Blue Suede Boppers, a fifties rock 'n' roll band, and marching with the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, an activist New Orleans-style brass band.
Steve Waksman has turned a lifelong involvement with music as a player and listener into a career as a scholar of rock and pop. Associate Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College, his works include the books Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience, and the award-winning This Ain’t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. He has contributed essays to several journals and edited collections, including the Cambridge Companion to the Guitar, the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop, and Metal Rules the Globe. In 2008, Waksman was the keynote speaker at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s American Music Masters event honoring the legacy of musician and inventor Les Paul. He is currently researching a new book on the cultural history of live music and performance in the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and co-editing the Sage Handbook of Popular Music with Andy Bennett.
In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents
2) Full Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1. Constructing Tin Pan Alley: From Minstrelsy to Mass Culture
Chapter 2. Blues, Jazz, and Country: The Segregation of Popular Music
Chapter 3. “Good Rockin’ Tonight”: The Rise of Rhythm and Blues
Chapter 4. Crossing Cultures: The Eruption of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Chapter 5. The Empire Strikes Back: The Reaction to Rock ‘n’ Roll
Chapter 6. Popular Music and Political Culture: The Sixties
Chapter 7. Music Versus Markets: The Fragmentation of Pop
Chapter 8. Punk and Disco: The Poles of Pop
Chapter 9. Are We the World? Music Videos, Superstars, and Mega-Events
Chapter 10. Rap and Metal: The Voices of Youth Culture
Chapter 11. Repackaging Pop: The Changing Mainstream
Chapter 12. Changing Channels: Music and Media in the New Millennium
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction: Definitions, Themes, and Issues
Into the Twentieth Century: Popular Music and Mass Culture
Rock ’n’ Roll: The Birth of a New Era
Marketing and the Politics of Race, Language, and Gender
Regulating Popular Music
Chapter 1. Constructing Tin Pan Alley: From Minstrelsy to Mass Culture
Minstrelsy: The Making of Mainstream U.S. Culture
Sheet Music, Sound Recording, and the Sounds of Music
Tin Pan Alley Creates Musical Tradition
Listening Guide 1: “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
Commercial Broadcasting: A Very Private Enterprise
Chapter 2. Blues, Jazz, and Country: The Segregation of Popular Music
Blues, Jazz, and Country: More Equal Than Separate
Race Music: The Popular Sounds of Black America
Listening Guide 2: “Crazy Blues”
Hillbilly: The Music of the White Working Class
Listening Guide 3: “Blue Yodel #9 (Standin’ on the Corner)”
Disseminating Blues, Jazz, and Country: More Separate Than Equal
The Long Road Back for Records
Chapter 3. “Good Rockin’ Tonight”: The Rise of Rhythm and Blues
The Publishers and the Broadcasters: ASCAP Versus BMI
Enter the Deejay: The Broadcasters Versus AFM
From Big Bands to Solo Singers
The Major Labels Reclaim Country Music
Listening Guide 4: “Hey Good Lookin’”
The Independents Promote Rhythm and Blues
Listening Guide 5: “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean”
Mass Technology and Popular Taste
Independent Radio: Deejays in Your Face
Chapter 4. Crossing Cultures: The Eruption of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Cultural Diversity: The Roots of Rock ’n’ Roll
Structural Changes in the Music Industry
Sounds of the Cities
Listening Guide 6: “Tutti Frutti”
Listening Guide 7: “Rock and Roll Music”
Doo Wop: The Intersection of Gospel, Jazz, and Pop
Listening Guide 8: “Sh’ Boom”
Latin Music Rocks
Rockabilly: The Country Strain
Chapter 5. The Empire Strikes Back: The Reaction to Rock ‘n’ Roll
The Established Powers Fight Back
Listening Guide 10: “Tutti Frutti”
“Schlock Rock”: Enter the White Middle Class
The War on Rock ’n’ Roll
Surf’s Up!
Listening Guide 11: “Surfin’ U.S.A.”
Chapter 6. Popular Music and Political Culture: The Sixties
The Civil Rights Movement and Popular Music
Listening Guide 12: “Stop! In the Name of Love”
Listening Guide 13: “The Times They Are A-Changin’”
The British Invasion Occupies the Pop Charts
Breaking the Sounds of Silence: New Voices in the Music
Listening Guide 14: “(I Got You) I Feel Good”
Listening Guide 15: “Oye Como Va”
Listening Guide 16: “A Day in the Life”
Chapter 7. Music Versus Markets: The Fragmentation of Pop
The Music Industry: A Sound Investment
Creativity and Commerce: Rock as Art
Listening Guide 17: “Roundabout”
Sweeter Soul Music
Listening Guide 18: “You Make Me Feel Brand New”
Singer/Songwriters, Soft Rock, and More
Listening Guide 19: “You’ve Got a Friend”
Women’s Music: The Feminist Alternative
From Country Rock to Southern Boogie
Mad with Power: Heavy Metal
Listening Guide 20: “Smoke on the Water”
All That Glitters Does Not Sell Gold
Listening Guide 21: “Changes”
Chapter 8. Punk and Disco: The Poles of Pop
Punk Versus Disco
Punk: Rock as (White) Noise
Listening Guide 22: “I Don’t Wanna Be Learned, I Don’t Wanna Be Tamed”
Listening Guide 23: “Anarchy in the U.K.”
Disco: The Rhythm Without the Blues
Listening Guide 24: “Last Dance”
Chapter 9. Are We the World? Music Videos, Superstars, and Mega-Events
Early Music Television: They Want Their MTV
Listening Guide 25: “Beat It”
Superstars: The Road to Economic Recovery
Listening Guide 26: “Born in the U.S.A.”
Listening Guide 27: “Like a Virgin”
Charity Rock and Mega-Events: Who Is the World?
Chapter 10. Rap and Metal: The Voices of Youth Culture
The Continuing History of Heavy Metal
Listening Guide 28: “Jump”
Listening Guide 29: “. . . And Justice for All”
Hip Hop, Don’t Stop
Listening Guide 30: “Rock Box”
Listening Guide 31: “Ladies First”
Chapter 11. Repackaging Pop: The Changing Mainstream
Meet The New Boss…Bigger Than The Old Boss
Listening Guide 32: “. . . Baby One More Time”
From Indie Scenes To Alternative Nation
Listening Guide 33: “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Country Into Pop
The Latin Boom And Beyond
Listening Guide 34: “Livin’ La Vida Loca”
Black Music At The Base
Listening Guide 35: “I’ll Be Missing You”
Women On The Rise
Listening Guide 36: “Bad Romance”
Chapter 12. Changing Channels: Music And Media In The New Millennium
They Want Their Mp3
Popular Music, Power, And Protest After 9/11
Listening Guide 37: “Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue (The Angry American)”
Mixing Sound, Mashing Beats
Listening Guide 38: “Turn Me On”
Multimedia Stardom
The Future Of Music
Listening Guide 39: “Everything In Its Right Place”
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