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9780130405982

Rockin' Out

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    9780130405982

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    0130405981

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-01-01
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

For undergraduate courses in the History of Popular Music, the History of Rock and Roll, American Popular Music and American Popular Song. Rockin' Out provides a comprehensive social history of popular music in the United States from the heyday of Tin Pan Alley to the current sounds of electronic dance music and teen pop, from the invention of the phonograph to the promise of the Internet. It offers an analysis and critique of the music itself and the conditions of its production and consumption. The text is organized chronologically and thematically around particular genres/styles of music and addresses such dimensions as race, class, gender, ethnicity, technology, copyright and the structure of the music industry as they affect the development of the music.

Author Biography

Reebee Garofalo has taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston since 1978.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Preface to the First Edition xi
Introduction: Definitions, Themes, and Issues 1(1)
Into the Twentieth Century: Popular Music and Mass Culture
2(2)
Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth of a New Era
4(4)
Marketing and the Politics of Race, Language, and Gender
8(5)
No Hablamos Espanol: The Language Barrier
11(1)
The Long, Hard Climb: Gender Discrimination
12(1)
Regulating Popular Music
13(2)
Mass Technology and Popular Taste: The Tin Pan Alley Era
15(20)
Sound Recording: From Cylinder to Disc
16(5)
Tin Pan Alley Constructs the Mainstream Tradition
21(6)
Tin Pan Alley Incorporates African American Music
22(3)
Tin Pan Alley Consolidates Its Power
25(2)
Commercial Broadcasting: A Very Private Enterprise
27(5)
The Growth of Network Radio
28(2)
The Advertisers Versus the Programmers
30(2)
Hollywood Bolsters Tin Pan Alley
32(3)
Blues and Country Music: Mass Media and the Construction of Race
35(18)
Blues and Country: More Equal than Separate
36(2)
``Race'' Music: The Popular Sounds of Black America
38(4)
``Hillbilly'': The Music of the White Working Class
42(3)
The Dissemination of Blues and Country: More Separate than Equal
45(4)
The Long Road Back for Records
49(4)
``Good Rockin' Tonight'': The Rise of Rhythm and Blues
53(24)
The Publishers and the Broadcasters: ASCAP Versus BMI
54(2)
Enter the Deejay: The Broadcasters Versus the AFM
56(2)
From Big Bands to Solo Singers
58(2)
The Major Labels Reclaim Country Music
60(2)
The Independents Promote Rhythm and Blues
62(6)
High Fidelity/Low Overhead
68(2)
Television and the Suppression of FM Broadcasting
70(2)
Independent Radio: Deejays in Your Face
72(5)
Crossing Cultures: The Eruption of Rock 'n' Roll
77(46)
Cultural Diversity: The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll
78(3)
Structural Changes in the Music Industry
81(3)
Sounds of the Cities
84(17)
New Orleans: The Fertile Crescent of Rock 'n' Roll
84(5)
Los Angeles: From Jump Blues to Chicano Rock
89(3)
Chicago: The Blues Electrified
92(3)
Cincinnati: The Crossroads of Blues and Country
95(1)
R&B Sanctified: The Gospel Connection
96(5)
Doo Wop: The Intersection of Gospel, Jazz, and Pop
101(9)
Rockabilly: The Country Strain
110(13)
The Empire Strikes Back: The Reaction to Rock 'n' Roll
123(28)
The Established Powers Fight Back
125(7)
Covering the Bases
127(3)
Pop Diversions: From Kingston Town to the Kingston Trio
130(2)
Schlock Rock: Enter the White Middle Class
132(8)
Television's Greatest Hits
136(2)
The Brill Building: The New Tin Pan Alley
138(2)
The Official Attack on Rock 'n' Roll
140(5)
Surf's Up!
145(6)
Popular Music and Political Culture: The Sixties
151(48)
The Civil Rights Movement and Popular Music
152(14)
The ``Girl Groups'' and the Men Behind Them
153(5)
Motown: The Integration of Pop
158(4)
Folk Music: The Voice of Civil Rights
162(4)
The British Invasion Occupies the Pop Charts
166(8)
Breaking the Sounds of Silence
174(7)
Folk Rock: Adding Substance to Form
174(3)
Black (Music) Is Beautiful
177(4)
Against the Grain: The Counterculture
181(18)
Blues on Acid: Psychedelic Rock
182(3)
Commercializing the Counterculture: The Monterey Pop Festival
185(4)
Riding the Storm
189(4)
Woodstock and Altamont: Reaching the Heights, Taking the Fall
193(6)
Music Versus Markets: The Fragmentation of Pop
199(50)
The Music Industry: A Sound Investment
200(7)
Merger Mania
201(1)
Expanding the Infrastructure: Counterculture as Commodity
202(5)
Creativity and Commerce: Rock as Art
207(7)
Sweeter Soul Music
214(6)
Singer/Songwriters, Soft Rock Solutions, and More
220(8)
Women's Music: The Feminist Alternative
228(3)
From Country Rock to Southern Boogie
231(7)
Mad with Power: Heavy Metal
238(8)
All That Glitters Does Not Sell Gold
246(3)
Punk and Disco: The Poles of Pop
249(42)
Punk Versus Disco
251(2)
Punk: Rock as (White) Noise
253(24)
Born in the U.S.A.
255(8)
Anarchy in the U.K.
263(4)
Flirtation with Fascism: The Underbelly of Punk
267(3)
Rock Against Racism: The Progressive Rejoinder
270(3)
Riding the New Wave
273(4)
Disco: The Rhythm Without the Blues
277(14)
Proto-Disco: The Funk Connection
278(4)
Up from the Disco Underground
282(3)
Mainstream Disco: The Bee Gees Boogie Down
285(3)
The Hard-Rock Reaction
288(3)
Music Videos, Superstars, and Mega-Events: The Eighties
291(34)
Early Music Television: They Want Their MTV
293(8)
Superstars: The Road to Economic Recovery
301(10)
Charity Rock and Mega-Events: Who Is the World?
311(12)
Christmas in Ethiopia: The Advent of Charity Rock
312(4)
Mega-Events: The Politics of Mass Culture
316(7)
Technology and the New International Music Industry
323(2)
Rap and Metal: Youth Culture and Censorship
325(40)
The Continuing History of Heavy Metal
327(10)
Heavy Metal: The New Wave
327(4)
Metal Fragments
331(6)
Hip Hop, Don't Stop
337(12)
Old School Rap
337(3)
Hip Hop: The Next Generation
340(9)
Popular Music and the Politics of Censorship
349(16)
The Parents Music Resource Center
350(3)
The Issues: Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Revisited
353(12)
Alternative to What?: Packaging Pop in the Nineties
365(56)
Alternative as Mainstream
367(14)
Lollapalooza: Mainstreaming Countercultural Performance
373(4)
Country and R&B: The Other Alternatives
377(4)
Packaging Popular Music
381(31)
Electronic Dance Music: The Next Big Thing
385(7)
The Year(s) of the Woman
392(5)
Teen Pop: Boy Bands and Teen Queens
397(3)
The Year of Latin(o) Musiclians)
400(4)
Many Years of Hip Hop
404(8)
The Internet: An Alternative (to the) Music Industry
412(9)
Notes 421(18)
Bibliography 439(8)
Subject Index 447(21)
Music Index 468

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