American popular music : from minstrelsy to MP3 /
"This is an introductory text for undergraduates taking courses in the history of American popular music"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Edition: | Sixth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Timeline: 1760s-1899
- Themes and streams of American popular music
- "After the ball": popular music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Timeline: 1900-1945
- "Catching as the small-pox": social dance and jazz, 1917-1935
- "I Got Rhythm": the golden age of tin pan alley song, 1920s and 1930s
- "St. Louis Blues": race records and hillbilly music, 1920s and 1930s
- "In the Mood": the swing era, 1935-1945
- Timeline: 1946-1979
- "Choo Choo Ch'boogie": the postwar era, 1946-1954
- "Rock Around the Clock": rock 'n' roll, 1954-1959
- "Good Vibrations": American pop and the British invasion, 1960s
- "Blowin' in the Wind": country, soul, urban folk, and the rise of rock, 1960s
- The 1970s: rock music, disco, and the popular mainstream
- Outsiders' music: progressive country, reggae, salsa, punk, funk, and rap, 1970s
- Timeline: 1980-today
- The 1980s: digital technology, MTV, and the popular mainstream
- "Smells like Teen Spirit": hip-hop, alternative music, and the entertainment business
- The internet age, 2000-.
