Rockin in Time : A Social History of Rock-and-Roll
ISBN: 9780205675043 | 0205675042
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 6/24/2009
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This well-organized, visually interesting book offers an in-depth examination of the social history of rock-and-roll. "Rockin' in Time" emphasizes several main themes, including the importance of African-American culture in the origins and development of rock music. Tracing rock from its inception-from American blues to the present-this book shows how rock-and-roll has reflected and sometimes changed American and British culture for the last fifty years. Topics covered in this comprehensive history are: the blues and racism; Elvis Presley and r... MORE
| Acknowledgments | |
| The Blues, Rock-and-Roll, and Racism | |
| The Birth of the Blues | |
| From the Rural South to the Urban North | |
| Muddy Waters and Chicago R&B | |
| The Wolf | |
| Other Chess Discoveries | |
| The Independent Sweepstakes | |
| The R&B Market | |
| From R&B to Rock-and-Roll: Little Richard and Chuck Berry | |
| Social Change and Rock-and-Roll | |
| Racist Backlash | |
| The Music Industry versus Rock-and-Roll | |
| The Blanching of Rock | |
| The Story of Arthur Big Bo | |
| Crudup | |
| Elvis and Rockabilly | |
| Rockabilly Roots | |
| The Rockabilly Sound | |
| Sun Records and Elvis | |
| The Kille | |
| Blue Suede Shoe | |
| Johnny Cash | |
| The Sun Rockabilly Stable | |
| The Decca Challenge | |
| Rockabilly Sweeps the Nation | |
| The Selling of Elvis Presley | |
| Reactions Against the Presley Mania | |
| Elvis Goes to Hollywood | |
| The Teen Market: From Bandstan | |
| to Girl Groups | |
| Lost Idols | |
| The Booming Teen Market | |
| Dick Clark andAmerican Bandstand | |
| Clark's Creations | |
| The Payola Investigation | |
| Don Kirshner Takes Charge | |
| The Sounds on the Streets | |
| The Girl Groups | |
| The Dream | |
| Surfboards and Hot Rods: California, Here We Come | |
| The New American Empire | |
| Surfing U.S.A. | |
| The Sound of the Surf | |
| The Beach Boys | |
| Jan and Dean | |
| Drag City | |
| Bob Dylan and the New Frontier | |
| Songs of Protest | |
| The Folk Revival | |
| Civil Rights in a New Frontier | |
| Bob Dylan: The Music of Protest | |
| Joan Baez | |
| The Singer-Activists | |
| Motown: The Sound of Integration | |
| Motown: The Early Years | |
| Civil Rights in the Great Society | |
| The Sound of Integration | |
| The Supremes on the Assembly Line | |
| The Motown Stable | |
| The British Invasion of America: The Beatles | |
| The Mods, the Rockers, and the Skiffle Craze | |
| The Early Beatles | |
| Manager Brian Epstein | |
| The Toppermost of the Poppermost | |
| The Beatles Invade America | |
| The Mersey Beat | |
| The Monkees | |
| The British Blues Invasion and Garage Rock | |
| British Blues and the Rolling Stones | |
| The Stones Turn Raunchy | |
| Success | |
| The Who | |
| The British Blues Onslaught | |
| American Garage Rock | |
| Folk Rock | |
| Dylan's Disenchantment | |
| Folk Rock | |
| Acid Rock | |
| The Beats | |
| The Reemergence of the Beats: The New York Connection | |
| The Haight-Ashbury Scene | |
| The Hippie Culture | |
| Acid Rock: The Trip Begins | |
| Rock-and-Roll Revolution | |
| Psychedelic London | |
| The Decline and Fall of Hippiedom | |
| Fire from the Streets | |
| Soul Music | |
| Black Soul in White America | |
| Militant Blues on Campus | |
| Campus Unrest | |
| The Psychedelic Blues | |
| Heavy Metal Thunder | |
| The Rebirth of the Blues | |
| Woodstock and the End of an Era | |
| Escaping into the Seventies | |
| Miles Ahead | |
| Sweet Seventies Soul | |
| Classical Rock | |
| Back to the Country | |
| Seventies Folk | |
| The Era of Excess | |
| The M | |
| Decade | |
| Elton John | |
| Heavy-metal Theater | |
| Art Pop in the Arena | |
| Funk from Outer Space | |
| Disco | |
| Corporate Rock | |
| Punk Rock and the New Generation | |
| New York Punk | |
| The Sex Pistols and British Punk | |
| The British Punk Legion | |
| Rock Against Racism | |
| The Jamaican Connection: Reggae and Ska | |
| The Independent Labels | |
| Right-Wing Reaction | |
| The Decline of Punk | |
| Post-Punk Depression | |
| The New Wave | |
| I Want My MTV | |
| MTV and the Video Age | |
| The New Romantics | |
| MTV Goes Electro-Pop | |
| MTV and Michaelmania | |
| The Jackson Legacy | |
| Pop Goes the Metal | |
| The Promise of Rock-and-Roll | |
| Trickling Down with Ronald Reagan | |
| The Boss | |
| The Benefits | |
| Children of the Sixties | |
| Classic Rock and the Compact Disc | |
| Country Boomers | |
| The Generation X Blues | |
| The Hardcore Generation | |
| Thrash Metal | |
| Death Metal | |
| The Industrial Revolution | |
| Grunge | |
| The Rave Revolution and Britpop | |
| House and Techno | |
| A Rave New World | |
| The Dark Side of the Jungle | |
| Chillin' | |
| Out | |
| BritPop | |
| The Hip-Hop Nation | |
| The Old School | |
| The Second Wave | |
| Gangsta | |
| Young, Gifted, and Black | |
| The Return ofShaft | |
| Hip-Hop Pop | |
| New Jack Swing | |
| Spice World | |
| Hip Hop Grows Up | |
| Metal Gumbo: Rockin' | |
| in the Twenty-first Century | |
| Nu-Metal Pioneers | |
| The Rap-Rock Explosion | |
| Progressive Metal | |
| Nu-Metal Anthems | |
| The Internet, Jam Bands and Three Shades of the Blues | |
| The Age of the Internet | |
| The Download Mania | |
| The Reinvention of the Music Industry | |
| Jam Bands | |
| Life in Wartime | |
| The Singers-Songwriters | |
| Blues from the Garage | |
| Black Metal | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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