American Popular Music : From Minstrelsy to MP3
ISBN: 9780195396300 | 0195396308
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/13/2009
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The most complete, colorful, and authoritative package of its kind, American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Third Edition, examines popular music in the United States from its beginnings into the 21st century. Highlighting the contributions of diverse groups, Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman trace the development of jazz, blues, country, rock, hip-hop, and other popular styles. They combine an in-depth treatment of the music itself--including discussions of stylistic elements and analyses of musical examples--with solid coverage of ... MORE
| Preface to the Third Edition | |
| Themes And Streams Of American Popular Music | |
| Listening | |
| Music and Identity | |
| Music and Technology | |
| The Music Business | |
| Centers and Peripheries | |
| Streams of Tradition: The Sources of Popular Music | |
| The European American Stream | |
| The African American Stream | |
| ... MORE | |
| ""After The Ball"": Popular Music Of The Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries | |
| The Minstrel Show | |
| Dance Music and Brass Bands | |
| The Birth of Tin Pan Alley | |
| The Ragtime Craze, 1896-1918 | |
| The Rise of the Phonograph | |
| ""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 | |
| The Jazz Craze | |
| Jazz Becomes Popular Music: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band | |
| Dance Music in the ""Jazz Age"" | |
| ""The King of Jazz"" | |
| ""I Got Rhythm"": The Golden Age Of Tin Pan Alley Song | |
| Tin Pan Alley Song Form | |
| What Were Tin Pan Alley Songs About? | |
| What Makes a Song a ""Standard""? | |
| ""St. Louis Blues"": Race Records And Hillbilly Music | |
| Race Records | |
| Classic Blues | |
| The Country Blues | |
| Charley Patton and ""Tom Rushen Blues"" (1929) | |
| 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 | |
| ""In The Mood"": The Swing Era, 1935-1945 | |
| Swing Music and American Culture | |
| Benny Goodman: The King of Swing | |
| Big Band Blues: Basie, Ellington, and Miller | |
| Country Music in the Swing Era: Roy Acuff, Singing Cowboys, and Western Swing | |
| Latin Music in the Swing Era | |
| ""Choo Choo Ch'boogie"": The Postwar Era, 1946-1954 | |
| Popular Music and Technology in the Postwar Era | |
| Rise of the Big Singers | |
| Urban Folk Music: The Weavers | |
| The Mambo Craze (1949-1955) | |
| Southern Music in the Postwar Era | |
| Rhythm & Blues | |
| Women in R&B: Ruth Brown and Big Mama Thornton | |
| Country and Western Music | |
| Hank Williams | |
| ""Rock Around The Clock"": Rock 'n' Roll, 1954-1959 | |
| 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: The Lady Vanishes | |
| Songwriters and Producers of Early Rock 'n' Roll | |
| ""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 | |
| The Latin Stream in 1960s Pop | |
| ""Papa's Got A Brand New Bag"": Country, Soul, Urban Folk, And The Rise Of Rock, 1960s | |
| Patsy Cline and the Nashville Sound | |
| Ray Charles and Soul Music | |
| James Brown and Aretha Franklin | |
| Urban Folk Music in the 1960s: Bob Dylan | |
| The Counterculture and Psychedelic Rock | |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | |
| San Francisco Rock: Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead | |
| Guitar Heroes: Hendrix and Clapton | |
| The 1970S: Rock Music, Disco, And The Popular Mainstream | |
| Country Music and the Pop Mainstream | |
| A 1970s Jukebox: Some Characteristic Sounds of the Decade | |
| Rock Comes of Age | |
| ""Night Fever"": The Rise of Disco | |
| Outsiders' Music: Progressive Country, Reggae, 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 | |
| The 1980S: Digital Technology, Mtv, And The Popular Mainstream | |
| Digital Technology and Popular Music | |
| A 1980s CD Changer | |
| A Tale of Three Albums | |
| ""Baby I'm A Star"": Prince, Madonna, and the Production of Celebrity | |
| ""Smells Like Teen Spirit"": Hip-Hop, ""Alternative"" Music, And The Entertainment Business | |
| Hip-Hop Breaks Out (1980s-1990s) | |
| Techno: Dance Music in the Digital Age | |
| Alternate Currents | |
| Women's Voices: Alternative Folk, Hip-Hop, and Country | |
| Globalization and the Rise of World Music | |
| Conclusion | |
| Music and Identity | |
| Technology and the Music Business | |
| Centers and Peripheries | |
| Appendix: Illustrations of Key Music Terms | |
| Glossary | |
| Bibliography | |
| Timeline | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
| CD Track List | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Larry Starr is Professor of Music at the University of Washington. He is a respected scholar on the music of Ives, Gershwin, and Copland, as well as on popular music.
Christopher Waterman is Dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. An anthropologist specializing in the music of Africa and the Americas, he is also a bassist who has performed professionally in a wide variety of popular genres.
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