The Rise and Fall of Popular Music
by Donald Clarke |
Author�s Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One
The Origins of Popular Music
Chapter Two
Minstrelsy, and the War between the States
Chapter Three
The Rise of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley
Chapter Four
The Ragtime Era and the Coon Shouters
Chapter Five
The Early Years of Jazz
Chapter Six
Broadway and the Golden Age of Songwriting
Chapter Seven
The Jazz Age, the Great Depression and New Markets:
Race and Hillbilly Music
Chapter Eight
Big Band Jazz
Chapter Nine
The Swing Era Begins
Chapter Ten
Small-group Jazz, the Jukebox and New Independent Labels
Chapter Eleven
The 1940s: War and Other Calamities
Chapter Twelve
The Early 1950s: Frustration and Confusion
Chapter Thirteen
Music for Grown-ups
Chapter Fourteen
Rock'n'Roll; or, Black Music to the Rescue (Again)
Chapter Fifteen
The Abdication of a Generation
Chapter Sixteen
A Last Gasp of Innocence
Chapter Seventeen
The 1960s: A Folk Boom, a British Invasion,
The Soul Years and the Legacy of an Era
Chapter Eighteen
The Heat Death of Popular Music
Chapter Nineteen
Black Music: Everybody's Still Doing It
Author�s Afterward
Bibliography
Book Review by Steve Schwartz
See also MusicWeb Encyclopadia of Popular Music edited by Donald Clarke
