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Rockin' Out : Popular Music in the USA
by Garofalo, ReebeeISBN13:
9780205137039
ISBN10:
0205137032
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
9/1/1996
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Pearson P T R
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Summary
This book proceeds from the assumption that music is always a social indicator; that is, it tells us something about the world around us. It responds to, mirrors, and influences the society in which we live. This comprehensive social history is organized chronologically around themes and issues which explicate the connection between music and other social processes. These include the multicultural influences in US popular music; the impact of technological advances; the significance of class, race, gender, ethnicity, and region; the importance of political context; and the power of consumer preferences. Rockin' Out is necessarily encyclopedic; still, it balances information with analysis. The text begins with the invention of sound recording and the rise of Tin Pan Alley, and proceeds through discussions of blues, country, and rhythm and blues as historical background. As such, it provides students with significant discussions of the preconditions and formative influences of the music. Garofalo discusses rock and soul, punk and disco, rap and metal, and alternative music as well as all of the sub-genres and stylistic variants of these sounds. This is the only text that covers the total range of US popular music in the 20th century, locates them in their social context, and provides an interdisciplinary analysis of their significance.
Author Biography
Reebee Garofalo has taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston since 1978.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Introduction: Definitions, Themes, and Issues | p. 1 |
| Into the Twentieth Century: Popular Music and Mass Culture | p. 2 |
| Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth of a New Era | p. 4 |
| Marketing and the Politics of Race, Language, and Gender | p. 9 |
| No Hablamos Espanol: The Language Barrier | p. 12 |
| The Long, Hard Climb: Gender Discrimination | p. 13 |
| Regulating Popular Music | p. 14 |
| Mass Technology and Popular Taste: The Tin Pan Alley Era | p. 17 |
| Sound Recording: From Cylinder to Disc | p. 18 |
| Tin Pan Alley Constructs the Mainstream Tradition | p. 24 |
| Tin Pan Alley Incorporates African American Music | p. 26 |
| Tin Pan Alley Consolidates Its Power | p. 29 |
| Commercial Broadcasting: A Very Private Enterprise | p. 32 |
| The Growth of Network Radio | p. 33 |
| The Advertisers Versus the Programmers | p. 35 |
| Hollywood Bolsters Tin Pan Alley | p. 37 |
| Blues and Country Music: Mass Media and the Construction of Race | p. 43 |
| Blues and Country: More Equal than Separate | p. 44 |
| "Race" Music: The Popular Sounds of Black America | p. 46 |
| "Hillbilly": The Music of the White Working Class | p. 51 |
| The Dissemination of Blues and Country: More Separate than Equal | p. 55 |
| The Long Road Back for Records | p. 59 |
| "Good Rockin' Tonight": The Rise of Rhythm and Blues | p. 65 |
| The Publishers and the Broadcasters: ASCAP Versus BMI | p. 66 |
| Enter the Deejay: The Broadcasters Versus the AFM | p. 68 |
| From Big Bands to Solo Singers | p. 71 |
| The Major Labels Reclaim Country Music | p. 73 |
| The Independents Promote Rhythm and Blues | p. 76 |
| High Fidelity/Low Overhead | p. 82 |
| Television and the Suppression of FM Broadcasting | p. 84 |
| Independent Radio: Deejays in Your Face | p. 86 |
| Crossing Cultures: The Eruption of Rock 'n' Roll | p. 93 |
| Cultural Diversity: The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll | p. 94 |
| Structural Changes in the Music Industry | p. 98 |
| Sounds of the Cities | p. 101 |
| New Orleans: The Fertile Crescent of Rock 'n' Roll | p. 101 |
| Los Angeles: From Jump Blues to Chicano Rock | p. 108 |
| Chicago: The Blues Electrified | p. 111 |
| Cincinnati: The Crossroads of Blues and Country | p. 115 |
| RandB Sanctified: The Gospel Connection | p. 116 |
| Doo Wop: The Intersection of Gospel, Jazz, and Pop | p. 121 |
| Rockabilly: The Country Strain | p. 131 |
| The Empire Strikes Back: The Reaction to Rock 'n' Roll | p. 149 |
| The Established Powers Fight Back | p. 152 |
| Covering the Bases | p. 154 |
| Pop Diversions: From Kingston Town to the Kingston Trio | p. 157 |
| Schlock Rock: Enter the White Middle Class | p. 160 |
| Television's Greatest Hits | p. 165 |
| The Brill Building: The New Tin Pan Alley | p. 167 |
| The Official Attack on Rock 'n' Roll | p. 169 |
| Surf's Up! | p. 175 |
| Popular Music and Political Culture: The Sixties | p. 183 |
| The Civil Rights Movement and Popular Music | p. 184 |
| The "Girl Groups" and the Men behind Them | p. 186 |
| Motown: The Integration of Pop | p. 191 |
| Folk Music: The Voice of Civil Rights | p. 196 |
| The British Invasion Occupies the Pop Charts | p. 200 |
| Breaking the Sounds of Silence | p. 209 |
| Folk Rock: Adding Substance to Form | p. 210 |
| Black (Music) Is Beautiful | p. 213 |
| Against the Grain: The Counterculture | p. 217 |
| Blues on Acid: Psychedelic Rock | p. 218 |
| Commercializing the Counterculture: The Monterey Pop Festival | p. 222 |
| Riding the Storm | p. 226 |
| Woodstock and Altamont: Reaching the Heights, Taking the Fall | p. 231 |
| Music Versus Markets: The Fragmentation of Pop | p. 239 |
| The Music Industry: A Sound Investment | p. 240 |
| Merger Mania | p. 241 |
| Expanding the Infrastructure: Counterculture as Commodity | p. 243 |
| Creativity and Commerce: Rock as Art | p. 248 |
| Sweeter Soul Music | p. 257 |
| Singer/Songwriters, Soft Rock Solutions, and More | p. 264 |
| Women's Music: The Feminist Alternative | p. 273 |
| From Country Rock to Southern Boogie | p. 277 |
| Mad with Power: Heavy Metal | p. 285 |
| All That Glitters Does Not Sell Gold | p. 294 |
| Punk and Disco: The Poles of Pop | p. 301 |
| Punk Versus Disco | p. 303 |
| Punk: Rock as (White) Noise | p. 305 |
| Born in the USA | p. 308 |
| Anarchy in the U.K. | p. 317 |
| Flirtation with Fascism: The Underbelly of Punk | p. 322 |
| Rock Against Racism: The Progressive Rejoinder | p. 325 |
| Riding the New Wave | p. 329 |
| Disco: The Rhythm without the Blues | p. 334 |
| Proto-Disco: The Funk Connection | p. 335 |
| Up from the Disco Underground | p. 339 |
| Mainstream Disco: The Bee Gees Boogie Down | p. 343 |
| The Hard-Rock Reaction | p. 347 |
| Music Videos, Superstars, and Mega-Events: The Eighties | p. 353 |
| Early Music Television: They Want Their MTV | p. 355 |
| Superstars: The Road to Economic Recovery | p. 365 |
| Charity Rock and Mega-Events: Who Is the World? | p. 375 |
| Christmas in Ethiopia: The Advent of Charity Rock | p. 376 |
| Mega-Events: The Politics of Mass Culture | p. 381 |
| Technology and the New International Music Industry | p. 390 |
| Rap and Metal: Youth Culture and Censorship | p. 395 |
| The Continuing History of Heavy Metal | p. 397 |
| Heavy Metal: The New Wave | p. 397 |
| Metal Fragments | p. 402 |
| Hip Hop, Don't Stop | p. 408 |
| Old School Rap | p. 409 |
| Hip Hop: The Next Generation | p. 412 |
| Popular Music and the Politics of Censorship | p. 423 |
| The Parents Music Resource Center | p. 424 |
| The Issues: Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Revisited | p. 427 |
| Alternative to What? | p. 443 |
| Strange Bedfellows: Alternative and the Mainstream | p. 446 |
| Marketing Categories and Monster Contracts | p. 453 |
| Country and RandB: The Other Alternatives | p. 457 |
| Lollapalooza: Countercultural Sensibilities, Mainstream Clout | p. 460 |
| Bibliography | p. 467 |
| Index | p. 475 |
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