The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates

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Essays On 20th And 21st Century Popular Music: Irving Berlin, Jazz, Rhythm And Blues, Swing, Hillbilly, Big Band, Country, Rock 'n' Roll, Folk, Soul, Funk, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Jerry Wexler, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan Heavy Metal And Counterculture, Reggae, Disco, Punk, New Wave, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Postpunk, Hip Hop, Rap, Indie, Alternative, Grunge, Electronica, Boy Bands, Lady Gaga. Pt. 1: Before 1950. Irving Berlin In Tin Pan Alley. Irving Berlin And The Crucible Of God / Charles Hamm -- Technology, The Dawn Of Modern Popular Music, And The King Of Jazz. On Wax / Paul Whiteman And Mary Margaret Mcbride -- Big Band Swing Music : Race And Power In The Music Business. Black Music's On Top; White Jazz Stagnant / Marvin Freedman ; The Dance Band Business: A Study In Black And White / Irving Kolodin -- Solo Pop Singers And New Forms Of Fandom. The Bobby Sox Have Wilted, But The Memory Remains Fresh / Martha Weinman Lear -- Hillbilly And Race Music. Thar's Gold In Them Hillbillies / Kyle Crichton -- Blues People And The Classic Blues. From Blues People: The Negro Experience In White America And The Music That Developed From It / Leroi Jones -- The Empress Of The Blues. From Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Story Of Jazz As Told Bye The Men Who Made It / Nat Shapiro And Nat Hentoff -- At The Crossroads With Son House. Son House : Living King Of Delta / Jerry Gilbert -- From Race Music To Rhythm And Blues : T-bone Walker. T-bone Walker: Father Of The Blues / Kevin Sheridan And Peter Sheridan -- Jumpin' The Blues With Louis Jordan. Bands Dug By The Beat: Louis Jordan / Down Beat ; From Honkers And Shouters: The Golden Years Of Rhythm And Blues / Arnold Shaw -- On The Bandstand With Johnny Otis. From Upside Your Head! Rhythm And Blues On Central Avenue / Johnny Otis -- The Producers Answer Back : The Emergence Of The Indie Record Company. Indies' Surprise Survival: Small Labels' Ingenuity And Skill Pay Off / Bill Simon ; From Honkers And Shouters: The Golden Years Of Rhythm And Blues / Arnold Shaw -- Country Music As Folk Music, Country Music As Novelty. American Folk Tunes: Cowboy And Hillbilly Tunes And Tunesters / Billboard -- Corn Of Plenty / Newsweek. Pt. 2: The 1950s. Country Music Approaches The Mainstream. Country Music Goes To Town / Rufus Jarman -- Rhythm And Blues In The Early 1950s : B.b. King. From Honkers And Shouters: The Golden Years Of Rhythm And Blues / Arnold Shaw -- The House That Ruth Brown Built. From Miss Rhythm: The Autobiography Of Ruth Brown, Rhythm And Blues Legend / Ruth Brown (with Andrew Yule) -- Ray Charles, Or When Saturday Night Mixed It Up With Sunday Morning. From Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story / Ray Charles And David Ritz -- Jerry Wexler : A Life In R & B. From Rhythm And The Blues: A Life In American Music / Jerry Wexler And David Ritz -- The Growing Threat Of Rhythm And Blues. Top Names Now Singing The Blues As Newcomers Roll On R & B Tide -- A Warning To The Music Business / Variety -- From Rhythm And Blues To Rock 'n' Roll : The Songs Of Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry : Rock Lives! / Norman Jopling -- Little Richard : Boldly Going Where No Man Had Gone Before. From The Life And Times Of Little Richard : The Quasar Of Rock / Charles White -- Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, And Rockabilly. Sam Phillips Interview / Elizabeth Kaye -- Rock 'n' Roll Meets The Popular Press -- The Chicago Defender Defends Rock 'n' Roll. Bias Against 'rock 'n' Roll' Latest Bombshell In Dixie / Rob Roy -- The Music Industry Fight Against Rock 'n' Roll : Dick Clark's Teen-pop Empire And The Payola Scandal. Music Biz Goes Round And Round: It Comes Out Clarkola / Peter Bunzel -- Mr. Clark And Colored Payola / New York Age. Pt. 3: The 1960s -- Brill Building And The Girl Groups. From Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Girl Groups From The 50s On ... / Charlotte Greig -- From Surf To Smile. Interview With Brian Wilson / Richard Cromelin -- Urban Folk Revival. Songs Of The Silent Generation / Gene Bluestein ; Folk Singing : Sibyl With Guitar / Time -- Bringing It All Back Home : Dylan At Newport. Newport Folk Festival, 1965 / Irwin Silber -- Newport Folk Festival, 1965 / Paul Nelson -- For A Man To Be At Ease, He Must Not Tell Al He Know, Nor Say All He Sees. Sing Out! An Interview With Bob Dylan / John Cohen And Happy Traum -- From R & B To Soul. From Rhythm And The Blues : A Life In American Music / Jerry Wexler And David Ritz -- No Town Like Motown. Berry Gordy : A Conersation With Mr. Motown / Harvey Kubernik -- The Godfather Of Soul And The Beginnings Of Funk. From The Godfather Of Soul / James Brown (with Bruce Tucker) --^ The Blues Changes From Day To Day. Otis Redding Interview / Jim Delehant -- Aretha Franklin Earns Respect. Aretha Franklin : Sister Soul: Eclipsed Singer Gains New Heights / Phyl Garland -- The Beatles, The British Invasion, And Cultural Respectability. What Songs The Beatles Sang ... / William Mann ; Musicologically ... / Theodore Strongin -- A Hard Day's Night And Beatlemania. Bravo Beatles! / Andrew Sarris ; Beatlemania: Girls Just Want To Have Fun / Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, And Gloria Jacobs -- England Swings, And The Beatles Evolve On Revolver And Sgt. Pepper. Pop Eye: On 'revolver' / Richard Goldstein -- It's Getting Better / Jack Kroll -- The British Art School Blues. Rebels With A Beat / Ray Coleman -- The Stones Versus The Beatles. Records : Rock, Etc. : The Big Ones / Ellen Willis -- If You're Goin' To San Francisco. Dead Like Live Thunder / Ralph J. Gleason -- The Kozmic Blues Of Janis Joplin. We Look At Our Parents And ... / Nat Hentoff --^ Jimi Hendrix And The Electronic Guitar. Second Dimension : Jimi Hendrix In Action / Bob Dawbarn -- Rock Meets The Avant-garde : Frank Zappa. Zappa And The Mothers : Ugly Can Be Beautiful / Sally Kempton -- The Aesthetics Of Rock. Pop Eye: Evaluating Media / Richard Goldstein -- Festivals : The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. Review Of Various Artists, Woodstock / J.r. Young -- Altamount, California, December 6, 1969 / George Paul Csicsery. Pt. 4: The 1970s. The Sound Of Autobiography: Singer-songwriters, Carole King. Carole King : 'you Can Get To Know Me Through My Music' / Robert Windeler -- Exclusive Joni Mitshell Interview. Joni Mitchell : An Interview (part 1) / Penny Valentine -- Sly Stone : The Myth Of Staggerlee. From Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock 'n' Roll Music / Greil Marcus -- Not-so-little Stevie Wonder. The Formerly Little Stevie Wonder / Ben Fong-torres -- Parliament Drops The Bomb. George Clinton : Ultimate Liberator Of Constipated Notions / W.a. Brower -- Heavy Metal Meets The Counterculture. Review Of Led Zeppelin / John Mendelsohn ; Black Sabbath Don't Scare Nobody / Ed Kelleher -- Led Zeppelin Speaks! The Crunge : Jimmy Page Gives A History Lesson / Dave Schulps -- I Have No Message Whatsoever. David Bowie Interview / Cameron Crone -- Rock Me, Amadeus. Keith Emerson / Domenic Milano ; From Yesstories: Yes In Their Own Words / Tim Morse -- The Global Phenomenon Of Raggae. Third-world Theme Of Bob Marley / Robert Hilburn -- Get On Up Disco. The Dialectic Of Disco : Gay Music Goes Straight / Andrew Kopkind -- Punk : The Sound Of Criticism? A Conservative Impulse In The New Rock Underground / James Wolcott -- Punk Crosses The Atlantic. Rebels Against The System / Caroline Coon -- Punk To New Wave? The B-52s' American Graffiti / Stephen Holden -- Uk New Wave. The Elvis (costello, That Is) Interview / Allan Jones. Pt. 5: The 1980s. Thriller Begets The King Of Pop. I'm White! What's Wrong With Michael Jackson? / Greg Tate ; Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough : Bruce Swedien Remembers The Times With Michael Jackson / Daryl Easlea -- Madonna And The Performance Of Identity. Venus Of The Radio Waves / Camille Paglia -- Bruce Springsteen : Reborn In The Usa. Little Egypt From Asbury Park : And Bruce Springsteen Don't Crawl On His Belly, Neither / David Marsh ; The Real Thing : Bruce Springsteen / Simon Frith -- R & B In The 1980s : To Cross Over Or Not To Cross Over? From The Death Of Rhythm And Blues / Nelson George -- Heavy Metal Thunders On! Purity And Power : Total, Unswerving Devotion To Heavy Metal Form : Judas Priest And The Scorpions / J.d. Considine -- Metal In The Late Eighties : Glam Or Thrash? Metallica / Richard Gehr -- Parents Want Ot Know : Heavy Metal, The Pmrc, And The Public Debate Over Decency. Record Labeling : Hearing Before The Committee On Commerce, Science, And Transportation, United States Senate, 99th Congress, September 19, 1985 -- Postpunk Goes Indie. What Is This Thing Called Hardcore? / Al Flipside -- Hip-hop, Don't Stop. B-beats Bombarding Bronx: Mobile Dj Starts Something With Oldie R & B Disks / Robert Ford Jr. ; Jive Talking N.y. Djs Rapping Away In Black Discos / Robert Ford Jr. -- The Music Is A Mirror. Hip Hop Madness : From Def Jams To Cold Lampin', Rap Is Our Music / Harry Allen ; Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble / Carol Cooper -- Where Rap And Heavy Metal Converge. There's A New Sound In Pop Music : Bigotry / Jon Pareles. Pt. 6: The 1990s And Beyond . Hip-hop Into The 1990s : Gangstas, Fly Girls, And The Big Bling-bling. Fear Of A Rap Planet / J.d. Considine -- Nuthin' But A G Thang. Snoop Dogg's Gentle Hip Hop Growl / Touré -- Keeping It A Little Too Real. Rap Sheet / Sam Gideon Anso And Charles Rappleye ; Party Over / Selwyn Seyfu Hinds ; Town Criers / Natasha Stovall -- Women In Rap. Hip-hop Nation / Christopher John Farley -- The Beat Goes On. Eminem's Old Words Aren't Hip-hop's Biggest Problem / Renee Graham -- From Indie To Alternative To ... Seattle? A Seattle Slew / Dave Dimartino -- Grunge Turns To Scrunge. Over & Out : Indie Rock Values In The Age Of Alternative Million Sellers / Eric Weisbard -- We Are The World? Immigration And Assimilation : Rai, Reggae, And Bhangramuffin / George Lipsitz -- Genre Or Gender? The Resurgence Of The Singer-songwriter. Tori Amos : Pain For Sale / Robert L. Doerschuk -- Public Policy And Pop Music History Collide. Empire Of The Air / Jenny Toomey -- Electronica Is In The House. Historia Electronica Preface / Simon Reynolds -- R & B Divas Go Retro. The New Conscience Of Pop Music / Ann Powers -- Country In The Post-urban Cowboy Era. Garth Brooks : Meet Nashville's New Breed Of Generously Stetsoned Crooner / Mark Cooper ; Chicks Against The Machine / Charles Taylor -- Performance As Simulacrum, Boy Bands, And Other 21st-century Epiphanies. Jukebox Culture : How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Boy Aband / Joshua Clover ; Idol Pursuits / Nina C. Ayoub -- Lady Gaga And The Triumph Od Camp. Ladies Wild : How Not Dumb Is Gaga? / Sasha Frere-jones -- The End Of History, The Mass Marketing Of Trivia, And A World Of Copies Without Originals. The Kids Aren't Alright ... They're Amazing / Jay Babcock -- Ruled By Frankenmusic / Robert Everett-green ; Why File-sharing Will Save Hollywood, Music / Eliot Van Buskirk. David Brackett. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 561-566), Discographies, And Index.