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Rockin' in Time : A Social History of Rock and Roll

ISBN: 9780130226365 | 013022636X
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2000

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
For undergraduate courses in Popular Music, Recent American History, Sociology, and American Ethnic Studies. The only study of its kind, this well-organized, illustrated text offers an in-depth examination of the social history of America and Britain through rock-and-roll. Tracing rock from its inceptionfrom American blues to the presentthe book shows how rock-and-roll has reflected and sometimes changed American and British culture for several generations.

This well-organized, visually interesting book offers an i... MORE
Prefacexi
Acknowledgmentsxv
The Blues, Rock-and-Roll, and Racism
1(27)
The Birth of the Blues
... MORE(1)
From the Rural South to the Urban North
3(3)
Muddy Waters and Chicago R & B
6(2)
The Wolf
8(1)
Other Chess Discoveries
9(1)
The Independent Sweepstakes
10(4)
The R & B Market
14(2)
From R & B to Rock-and-Roll: Little Richard and Chuck Berry
16(3)
Social Change and Rock-and-Roll
19(2)
Racist Backlash
21(1)
The Music Industry versus Rock-and-Roll
22(1)
The Blanching of Rock
23(2)
The Story of Arthur ``Big Boy'' Crudup
25(3)
Elvis and Rockabilly
28(24)
Rockabilly Roots
28(2)
The Rockabilly Sound
30(1)
Sun Records and Elvis
31(3)
``The Killer''
34(1)
``Blue Suede Shoes''
34(2)
Johnny Cash
36(1)
The Sun Rockabilly Stable
37(1)
The Decca Challenge
38(3)
Rockabilly Sweeps the Nation
41(2)
The Selling of Elvis Presley
43(4)
Reactions Against the Presley Mania
47(2)
Elvis Goes to Hollywood
49(3)
Dick Clark, Don Kirshner, and the Teen Market
52(15)
Lost Idols
52(2)
The Booming Teen Market
54(1)
Dick Clark and American Bandstand
54(2)
Clark's Creations
56(2)
The Payola Investigation
58(2)
Don Kirshner Takes Charge
60(2)
The Sounds on the Streets
62(1)
The Girl Groups
63(2)
The Dream
65(2)
Surfboards and Hot Rods: California, Here We Come
67(10)
The New American Empire
67(1)
Surfing U.S.A.
68(1)
The Sound of the Surf
69(1)
The Beach Boys
70(3)
Jan and Dean
73(1)
Drag City
74(3)
Bob Dylan and the New Frontier
77(20)
Songs of Protest
78(1)
The Folk Revival
79(3)
Civil Rights on a New Frontier
82(5)
Bob Dylan: The Music of Protest
87(3)
Joan Baez
90(1)
The Singer-Activists
90(1)
Dylan's Disenchantment
91(3)
Folk Rock
94(3)
The British Invasion of America
97(29)
The Mods, the Rockers, and the Skiffle Craze
100(3)
The Early Beatles
103(2)
Manager Brian Epstein
105(1)
The Toppermost of the Poppermost
105(2)
The Beatles Invade America
107(4)
The Mersey Beat
111(3)
The Monkees
114(1)
The British Blues Invasion and the Rolling Stones
115(2)
The Stones Turn Raunchy
117(1)
Success
118(2)
The Who
120(3)
The Blues Onslaught
123(3)
Motown: The Sound of Integration
126(10)
Motown: The Early Years
126(2)
Civil Rights in the Great Society
128(1)
The Sound of Integration
129(2)
The Supremes on the Assembly Line
131(2)
The Motown Stable
133(3)
Acid Rock
136(22)
The Beats
137(2)
The Reemergence of the Beats: The New York Connection
139(2)
The Haight-Ashbury Scene
141(1)
The Hippie Culture
142(5)
Acid Rock: The Trip Begins
147(3)
Rock-and-Roll Revolution
150(5)
The Decline and Fall of Hippiedom
155(3)
Fire From the Streets
158(12)
Soul Music
161(6)
Black Soul in White America
167(3)
Militant Blues on Campus
170(20)
Campus Unrest
170(5)
The Psychedelic Blues
175(7)
Heavy Metal
182(1)
The Rebirth of the Blues
183(3)
Woodstock and the End of an Era
186(4)
Soft Sounds of the Seventies
190(15)
Miles Ahead
191(1)
Sweet Seventies Soul
192(3)
Classical Rock
195(3)
Back to the Country
198(3)
Seventies Folk
201(4)
The Era of Excess
205(15)
The ``Me'' Decade
206(2)
Elton John
208(1)
Heavy Metal Theater
208(5)
Funk From Outer Space
213(2)
Disco
215(3)
Corporate Rock
218(2)
Punk Rock and the New Generation
220(23)
New York Punk
220(6)
The Sex Pistols and British Punk
226(4)
Rock Against Racism
230(1)
The Jamaican Connection: Reggae and Ska
231(2)
The Independent Labels
233(2)
Right-Wing Reaction
235(1)
The Decline of Punk
235(2)
The Post-Punk Depression
237(3)
The New Wave
240(3)
I Want My MTV
243(16)
MTV and the Video Age
243(1)
The New Romantics
244(3)
MTV Goes Electro-Pop
247(3)
MTV and Michaelmania
250(2)
The Jackson Legacy
252(3)
Pop Goes the Metal
255(4)
The Promise of Rock-and-Roll
259(13)
The Boss
260(4)
The Benefits
264(1)
Children of the Sixties
265(2)
Classic Rock and the Compact Disc
267(3)
Country Boomers
270(2)
The Generation X Blues
272(17)
The Hardcore Generation
274(3)
Thrash Metal
277(5)
The Industrial Revolution
282(2)
Grunge
284(5)
The Rave Revolution
289(11)
House and Techno
289(2)
A Rave New World
291(4)
The Dark Side of the Jungle
295(2)
Armchair Techno
297(3)
The Many Faces of Hip Hop
300(21)
The Old School
302(3)
The Second Wave
305(1)
Gangsta
306(1)
Young, Gifted and Black
307(3)
The United Front: The Rap and Rock Alliance
310(1)
Techno Hop
311(1)
Trip-Hop
312(3)
Hip-Hop Pop
315(3)
Spice World
318(3)
Bibliography321(18)
Index339
David P. Szatmary worked in the music industry and taught the history of rock-and-roll at several universities after earning his Ph.D. in American History at Rutgers University. He currently works as an Acting Vice Provost at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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