American Popular Music

Chapter 1: THEMES AND STREAMS OF AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC

• • Theme One: Listening
• • Theme Two: Music and Identity (Individuality, Gender, and Race)
• • Theme Three: Music and Technology
• • Theme Four: The Music Business
• • Theme Five: Centers and Peripheries
• • Streams of Tradition: The Sources of Popular Music

Chapter 2: "AFTER THE BALL": POPULAR MUSIC OF THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES

• • The Minstrel Show
• • An Early Pop Songwriter: Stephen Foster
• • Dance Music and Brass Bands
• • The Birth of Tin Pan Alley
• • The Ragtime Craze, 1896-1918
• • The Rise of the Phonograph

Chapter 3: "CATCHING AS THE SMALL-POX": SOCIAL DANCE AND JAZZ, 1917-1935

• • Technology and the Music Business
• • "Freak Dances": Turkey Trot and Tango
• • James Reese Europe and the Castles
• • Jazz as Popular Music: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the Creole Jazz Band, and Louis Armstrong
• • Dance Music in the "Jazz Age"
• • The Rise of Latin Dance Music: "El Manicero"

Chapter 4: "I GOT RHYTHM": THE GOLDEN AGE OF TIN PAN ALLEY SONG, 1920s AND 1930s

• • Tin Pan Alley Song Form
• • What Were Tin Pan Alley Songs About?
• • What Makes a Song a "Standard"?
• • Tin Pan Alley and Broadway

Chapter 5: "ST. LOUIS BLUES": RACE RECORDS AND HILLBILLY MUSIC, 1920s AND 1930s

• • Race Records
• • Classic Blues
• • Understanding Twelve-Bar Blues
• • The Country Blues
• • Blind Lemon Jefferson: The First Country Blues Star
• • Robert Johnson: Standing at the Crossroad
• • Early Country Music: Hillbilly Records?
• • Pioneers of Country Music: The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers
• • Popular Music and the Great Depression

Chapter 6: "IN THE MOOD": THE SWING ERA, 1935-1945

• • Swing Music and American Culture
• • Benny Goodman: "The King of Swing"
• • Duke Ellington in the Swing Era
• • Kansas City Swing: Count Basie
• • Superstar of Swing: Glenn Miller
• • Jazz Singers: The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald
• • Vocal Harmony Groups
• • Country Music in the Swing Era: Roy Acuff, Singing Cowboys, and Western Swing
• • Latin Music in the Swing Era
• • ASCAP, the AFM, and the Decline of the Big Bands

Chapter 7: "CHOO CHOO CH' BOOGIE": THE POSTWAR ERA, 1946-1954

• • Popular Music and Technology in the Postwar Era
• • The Rise of the Star Singers
• • Urban Folk Music: The Weavers
• • The Mambo Craze (1949-1955)
• • Southern Music in the Postwar Era
• • Rhythm & Blues
• • Vocal Harmony Groups
• • R&B Women: Ruth Brown and Big Mama Thornton
• • Country and Western Music

Chapter 8: "ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK": ROCK 'N' ROLL, 1954-1959

• • The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll
• • Cover Versions and Early Rock 'n' Roll
• • The Rock 'n' Roll Business
• • Early Rock 'n' Roll Stars on the R&B Side
• • Early Rock 'n' Roll Stars on the Country Side
• • Wild, Wild Young Women: Female Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers
• • The Latin Side of Rock 'n' Roll
• • Songwriters and Producers of Early Rock 'n' Roll
• • Other Currents: The Standard and Folk Music in the Rock 'n' Roll Era

Chapter 9: "GOOD VIBRATIONS": AMERICAN POP AND THE BRITISH INVASION, 1960s

• • The Early 1960s: Dance Music and "Teenage Symphonies"
• • Berry Gordy and Motown
• • Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys
• • The Beatles, the British Invasion, and the American Response
• • Meanwhile, Back in California . . .
• • Latin Sounds in 1960s Pop: A Tall Man, a Tanned Girl, and a Taste of Honey

Chapter 10: "BLOWIN' IN THE WIND": COUNTRY, SOUL, URBAN FOLK, AND THE RISE OF ROCK, 1960s

• • Patsy Cline and the Nashville Sound
• • Ray Charles and Soul Music
• • Sam Cooke, the "King of Soul"
• • James Brown and Aretha Franklin
• • The Broadway Musical in the Age of Rock
• • Urban Folk Music in the 1960s: Bob Dylan
• • The Counterculture and Psychedelic Rock
• • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• • Their Satanic Majesties: The Rolling Stones After Sgt. Pepper
• • San Francisco Rock: Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead
• • The Doors and "Light My Fire"
• • Guitar Heroes: Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton

Chapter 11: THE 1970s: ROCK MUSIC, DISCO, AND THE POPULAR MAINSTREAM

• • Singer-Songwriters: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor
• • Country Music and the Pop Mainstream
• • Rock Comes of Age
• • "Night Fever": The Rise of Disco

Chapter 12: OUTSIDERS' MUSIC: PROGRESSIVE COUNTRY, REGGAE, SALSA, PUNK, FUNK, AND RAP, 1970s

• • The Outlaws: Progressive Country Music
• • "I Shot the Sheriff": The Rise of Reggae
• • The Rise of Salsa Music
• • "Psycho Killer": 1970s Punk and New Wave
• • "Tear the Roof off the Sucker": Funk Music
• • "Rapper's Delight": The Origins of Hip-Hop

Chapter 13: THE 1980s: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, MTV, AND THE POPULAR MAINSTREAM

• • Digital Technology and Popular Music
• • The Pop Mainstream of the 1980s: Some Representative Hits
• • A Tale of Three Albums
• • "Baby I'm a Star": Prince, Madonna, and the Production of Celebrity

Chapter 14: "SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT": HIP-HOP, ALTERNATIVE MUSIC, AND THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS

• • Hip-Hop Breaks Out (1980s-1990s)
• • Commercialization, Diversification, and the Rise of Gangsta Rap (1990s)
• • EDM: Dance Music in the Digital Age
• • Alternate Currents
• • Women's Voices: Alternative Folk, Hip-Hop, and Country
• • Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music: Approaches to Tradition
• • Latinx Superstars of the 1990s
• • Globalization and the Rise of "World Music"

Chapter 15: THE INTERNET AGE, 2000-

• • The Impact of Digital Recording
• • Music and the Internet: The Revolution Will Be Streamed
• • "On the Road Again": The New Popular Music Economy
• • Rock Music in the 2000s
• • Hip-Hop in the New Millennium
• • Hip-Hop Stars of the 2010s
• • Twenty-First Century Divas: We Never Go Out of Style
• • Conclusion: American Popular Music in the Age of Globalization