| Contents |
v. 1. The nineteenth century and Tin Pan Alley. Thinking about popular music -- The one dimensional approach to popular music: a research note / R. Serge Denisoff and Mark H. Levine -- Five constraints on the production of culture: law, technology, market, organizational structure, and occupational careers / Richard Peterson -- Rock: youth and its music / Deena Weinstein -- The nineteenth century. Introduction -- The ways of love in the mid-nineteenth century American song / Nicholas E. Tawa -- The Hutchinson family: the function of their song in ante-bellum America / Caroline Moseley -- Minstrelsy and popular culture / Orrin Clayton Suthern, II -- The Tin Pan Alley years (1890-1950). Introduction -- Ragtime and race pride: the career of James Weldon Johnson / Eugene Levy -- "Thou witty": the evolution and triumph of style in lyric writing, 1890-1950 / Timothy E. Scheurer -- W.S. Gilbert and the American musical theatre / Earl F. Bargainnier -- 'Welfare store blues': blues recordings and the Great Depression / John S. Otto and Augustus M. Burns -- A word about Whiteman / Russel B. Nye -- "Hot jazz," the jitterbug, and misunderstanding: the generation gap in swing, 1935-1945 / J. Frederick MacDonald -- Oh, what a beautiful mornin': the musical Oklahoma! and the popular mind in 1943 / Timothy P. Donovan -- The changing popular song: an historical overview / Paul Hirsch, John Robinson, Elizabeth K. Taylor and Stephen B. Withey. |
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v. 2. The age of rock. Country, folk and the roots of rock 'n' roll. Introduction -- The mythology of Woody Guthrie / J.L. Rodnitzky -- Country music and American values / John Buckley -- Ten thousand acres of bluegrass: mimesis in Bill Monroe's music / Robert Cantwell -- Bright lights, big city: a brief history of rhythm and blues, 1945-1957 / Tom McCourt -- From ASCAP to Alan Freed: the pre-history of rock 'n' roll / Reebee Garofolo and Steve Chapple -- Rock 'n' roll: the 1950s and early 1960s. Introduction -- The evolution of pop music broadcasting: 1920-1972 ; "Teen angel": resistance, rebellion, and death: revisited / R. Serge Denisoff -- Elvis Presley and the myth of America / Timothy E. Scheurer -- The evolution of the American protest song / Jerome Rodnitzky -- From rock 'n' roll to rock: the 1960s. Introduction -- Trends in lyrics in the annual top twenty songs in the United States, 1963-1972 / Gary Burns -- The lyrics of American pop music: a new poetry / Harold F. Mosher, Jr. -- Iconic modes: the Beatles / Ralph Brauer -- Me and the devil blues: a study of Robert Johnson and the music of the Rolling Stones / John D. Wells -- Soul music: its sociological and political significance in American popular culture / Portia K. Maultsby -- "If ya wanna end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud": a survey of Vietnam-related protest music / H. Ben Auslander -- Sex role standards in popular music / Kathleen L. Endres -- Let it be: rock in the '70s and '80s. Introduction -- Twilight of the age of Aquarius? Popular music in the 1970s / Hugh Mooney -- Pop, punk and subcultural solutions / Julian Tanner -- Reggae, Rastafarians and revolution: rock music in the third world / James A. Winders -- Disco: a music for the 1980s? / Hugh Mooney -- Music videos: from performance to dada-surrealism / Joan Lynch -- The price you pay: the life and lyrics of Bruce Springsteen / Julie Lyons and George H. Lewis. |
| Abstract |
Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll. Articles explore the theoretical dimensions of popular music studies; the music of the nineteenth century; and the role of black Americans in the evolution of popular music. Also included--the music of Tin Pan Alley, ragtime, swing, the blues, the influences of W. S. Gilbert and Rodgers and Hammerstein, and changes in lyric writing styles from the nineteenth century to the rock era. |
| Local note | Joyner-Joyner Music Library has: v. 1. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies. |
| LCCN | 89062346 |
| ISBN | 087972465X (v. 1) |
| ISBN | 0879724668 (pbk. ; v. 1) |
| ISBN | 0879724676 (v. 2) |
| ISBN | 0879724684 (pbk. ; v. 2) |
