American popular music
By: David Joyner.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780073526577
Subjects: Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism; Popular music -- United States -- Analysis, appreciation
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Tin Pan Alley and the theater. Tin Pan Alley and American popular song ; American musical theater; title: The African-American tradition. African origins and acculturation in the new world ; Early commercialization of African-American music ; American blues traditions ; Jazz in New Orleans and Chicago ; Jazz pioneers in Chicago ; Big bands and the swing years ; Popular styles in jazz since the swing era; title: Country music and the Anglo-American tradition. The folk origins of country music ; Early commercialization of country music ; Country meets western ; Nashville becomes Music City, U.S.A. ; From bluegrass to young country; title: Rock and the gathering of America's music. The origins and development of early rock ; Fifties pop and folk rock ; The British invasion ; Psychedelic rock and roots revivalists ; Gospel, soul, and Motown ; From progressive rock to reggae in the seventies ; Hard and soft rock in the seventies ; New heights and high tech in the eighties ; Many sounds from many places in the nineties.