American Popular Music A Multicultural History

by Appell, Glenn; Hemphill, David

• ISBN13: 9780155062290
• ISBN10: 0155062298
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-10
• Publisher: Cengage

Summary

Enhance your understanding of the culture behind American popular music with AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC: A MULTICULTURAL HISTORY! With detailed, easy-to-understand explanations of key musical concepts and terms, this music text tells the story of American popular music from the different cultural perspectives that made significant contributions to its development. A critical listening approach throughout helps you develop your music listening skills as a form of critical reflection. Historical timelines at the beginning of each chapter provide you with a practical chronological framework that helps you interpret and integrate musical, cultural and historic events.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
A Multicultural Approach to Popular Music Appreciation	1	(22)
Culture and Music	1	(2)
Music in a Multicultural Society	3	(2)
Hearing versus Listening	5	(1)
Exploring Musical Tastes	5	(1)
Developing a Popular Music Vocabulary	6	(8)
The Rhythm Section	14	(9)
Chapter Summary	17	(2)
Key Terms	19	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	20	(3)
PART I African American Roots---The Emergence of the Dominant Culture of American Popular Music
African Roots	23	(12)
A Holistic Approach to Life	23	(2)
African Musical Aesthetics	25	(2)
African Instruments	27	(1)
African American Music during Slavery	28	(3)
The End of Slavery and the Beginning of a New American Music	31	(4)
Chapter Summary	32	(1)
Key Terms	32	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	33	(2)
From Minstrelsy to the Blues	35	(24)
Minstrelsy	35	(3)
Origins of the Blues	38	(2)
Marketing the Blues and the Invention of Sound Recording	40	(2)
Classic versus Rural Blues	42	(4)
Urban Blues	46	(1)
Influences of Technology and World War II	47	(2)
The Electric Blues: Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, and B. B. King	49	(3)
Blues Revivals	52	(1)
The Power of the Blues	53	(6)
Chapter Summary	54	(1)
Key Terms	55	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	55	(4)
Early Jazz: From Ragtime to Swing	59	(28)
What Is Jazz?	59	(1)
Ragtime	60	(2)
New Orleans: The Birthplace of Jazz	62	(2)
Jelly Roll Morton: The First Great Jazz Composer	64	(2)
Louis Armstrong: The First Great Soloist	66	(2)
Chicago and the Jazz Age	68	(1)
New York and the Evolution of Jazz Piano Styles	69	(1)
Duke Ellington: True Jazz Royalty	70	(3)
The Swing Era	73	(7)
The Development of Vocal Jazz Traditions	80	(7)
Chapter Summary	82	(1)
Key Terms	83	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	83	(4)
PART II European American Traditions and Influences
From Hymns to Wind Bands	87	(14)
Church Music and Patriotic Songs	87	(1)
English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian Influences	88	(2)
Parlor Songs	90	(1)
Stephen Foster: America's First Great Songwriter	91	(1)
Nineteenth-Century Church Music	92	(1)
Civil War Music and Wind Bands	93	(8)
Chapter Summary	96	(1)
Key Terms	97	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	98	(3)
The Golden Age of American Popular Song	101	(26)
Tin Pan Alley and Turn-of-the-Century Popular Styles	101	(4)
Vaudeville, Early Musical Theater, and Operetta	105	(2)
The Evolution of Twentieth-Century American Musical Theater	107	(7)
Multicultural Broadway	114	(3)
Great Performers of American Popular Song	117	(5)
The Rise and Fall of the Tin Pan Alley Standard	122	(5)
Chapter Summary	122	(1)
Key Terms	123	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	124	(3)
Country Music	127	(32)
Folk Origins and Early Influences	127	(2)
What Makes It ``Country''?	129	(1)
Early Commercialization	130	(5)
The ``West'' Joins Country	135	(4)
Bluegrass and Old-Time Music	139	(2)
The Rise of Nashville	141	(3)
The Bakersfield Sound	144	(1)
The Austin Scene and the Outlaws	145	(1)
Country Rock	146	(1)
Female Legends of Country	147	(2)
Multicultural Country	149	(2)
Contemporary Country	151	(8)
Chapter Summary	154	(1)
Key Terms	155	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	156	(3)
PART III Latin Musics in America Form a New Blend
America's Afro-Caribbean and Latin Musical Heritage	159	(34)
Roots and Traditions	159	(2)
Latin Music Instrumentation	161	(3)
Cuban Popular Music Traditions	164	(2)
Early Twentieth-Century Latin Music in the United States	166	(1)
Latin Jazz and Mambo	167	(4)
Transitions in the 1960s	171	(4)
The 1970s and 1980s: Salsa!	175	(3)
Multiple Directions in the 2000s	178	(4)
Jamaican Influences: Ska, Reggae, Dub, and Dancehall	182	(4)
Trinidad: Calypso, Soca, and Steel Bands	186	(7)
Chapter Summary	188	(1)
Key Terms	189	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	189	(4)
Chicano and Mexican Popular Music in America	193	(24)
Historical Perspective	193	(1)
Tejano and Norteno Music Take Root	194	(2)
The Accordion and the Birth of Conjunto	196	(1)
World War II	197	(2)
Chicano Rock Makes Its Mark	199	(2)
Tejano and Chicano Pop Artists after the 1960s	201	(2)
California Chicano Rock after the 1960s	203	(5)
Mexican Music in the United States	208	(3)
The Scene in the Early 2000s	211	(6)
Chapter Summary	212	(2)
Key Terms	214	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	214	(3)
PART IV Native American and Asian Influences
Native American Popular Music	217	(14)
Historical Context	218	(1)
Musical Traditions of Native America	218	(1)
Traditional Native American Instruments	219	(1)
Powwow Traditions	220	(2)
Contemporary Native American Music	222	(2)
Contemporary Native Musicians	224	(3)
The Sacred, the Secular, and the Future	227	(4)
Chapter Summary	228	(1)
Key Terms	229	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	229	(2)
Asian and Pacific American Popular Musics	231	(16)
Asian Immigration to the United States	231	(1)
Chinese American Influences	232	(1)
Japanese American Influences	233	(2)
Filipino American Influences	235	(1)
South Asian American Influences	236	(1)
Vietnamese American Influences	237	(1)
Pan-Asian Musical Trends	238	(2)
Popular Music in Hawaii	240	(7)
Chapter Summary	242	(1)
Key Terms	243	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	244	(3)
PART V From Modern Jazz to Hip-Hop---Sixty Years of Evolving Traditions
From Bebop to Acid Jazz	247	(24)
Bebop and the Birth of Modern Jazz	247	(3)
Post-Bop Styles of the 1950s	250	(6)
Free Jazz	256	(1)
Mainstream Jazz in the 1960s	257	(1)
Bop and Post-Bop Vocal Jazz	258	(2)
Fusion	260	(3)
Contemporary Directions	263	(8)
Chapter Summary	266	(1)
Key Terms	267	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	267	(4)
Early R & B and Rock: The Late 1940s and the 1950s	271	(34)
The Culture of the Early 1950s	271	(2)
The Birth of R & B	273	(3)
West Coast R & B	276	(2)
Doo-Wop	278	(3)
Independent Labels and Black-Oriented Stations	281	(1)
The White Teen Market for ``Forbidden'' Music	281	(4)
Regional Origins of R & B and Rock	285	(8)
Fifties Rock after Elvis	293	(5)
``The Day the Music Died''	298	(7)
Chapter Summary	299	(1)
Key Terms	300	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	300	(5)
Girl Groups, Surf Music, Gospel, and Soul	305	(30)
Producers, a New Tin Pan Alley, and Girl Groups	305	(5)
Surf Music	310	(3)
Gospel Music	313	(5)
Soul Music	318	(17)
Chapter Summary	330	(1)
Key Terms	331	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	331	(4)
Folk-Rock, the British Invasion, and Psychedelia	335	(32)
The Folk Music Revival and the Birth of Folk-Rock	335	(8)
The British Invasion	343	(8)
The Birth of a Counterculture	351	(9)
The L.A. Rock Scene in the Late 1960s	360	(2)
Woodstock, Altamont, and the End of an Era	362	(5)
Chapter Summary	363	(1)
Key Terms	363	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	363	(4)
R & B and Its Descendants after the 1960s	367	(36)
Technological Changes	367	(2)
R & B from the 1970s to the Millennium	369	(8)
Disco	377	(1)
Dance Pop	378	(5)
Hip-Hop	383	(11)
Turntablism and Scratching	394	(1)
Electronica	395	(8)
Chapter Summary	397	(1)
Key Terms	398	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	399	(4)
Rock after the 1960s	403	(34)
Hard Rock Branches Out	403	(2)
Arena Rock	405	(1)
Heavy Metal	406	(2)
Southern Rock and Country Rock	408	(2)
Art Rock	410	(2)
Singer-Songwriters	412	(3)
Soft Rock	415	(1)
World Music	416	(2)
Punk and Its Descendants	418	(7)
Hybrid Styles of the 1990s and Early 2000s	425	(12)
Chapter Summary	432	(1)
Key Terms	433	(1)
Study and Discussion Questions	433	(4)
Glossary	437	(12)
Index	449