American popular music
Subtitle: new approaches to the twentieth century
By: edited by Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amherst [MA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781558492677; 9781558492684
Subjects: Musique populaire; Popular music; Popmusik; History and criticism; Populaire muziek; Histoire et critique
Description: Designed as a broad introductory survey, and written by experts in the field, this book examines the rise of American music over the past hundred years--the period in which that music came into its own and achieved unprecedented popularity. Beginning with a look at music as a business, eleven essays explore a variety of musical genres, including Tin Pan Alley, blues, jazz, country, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, folk, rap, and Mexican American corridos. Reading these essays, we come to see that the forms created by one group often appeal to, and are in turn influenced by, other groups, across lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender, region, and age. The chapters speak to one another, arguing for the primacy of such concepts as minstrelsy, urbanization, hybridity, and crossover as the most powerful tools for understanding American popular music.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: They work hard for their money: the business of popular music / David Sanjek; title: Tin Pan Alley and the Black-Jewish nation / Jeffrey Melnick; title: How I got to Memphis: the blues and the study of American culture / James Smethurst; title: Listening to jazz / Geoffrey Jacques; title: Sing me back home: nostalgia, Bakersfield, and modern Country music / Rachel Rubin; title: Off the charts: outrage and exclusion in the eruption of rock and roll / Reebee Garofalo; title: Another man is beating my time: gender and sexuality in rhythm and blues / Mark Anthony Neal; title: One hundred years of Black Gospel quartet singing / Kip Lornell; title: Contextualizing rap / Gail Hilson Woldu; title: The folk revival: beyond Child's canon and Sharp's song catching / Millie Rahn; title: Polka contrabandista: Mexican ballads in the modern age / Elijah Wald.