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America's musical pulse : popular music in twentieth-century society

Author: Kenneth J Bindas
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kenneth J Bindas
ISBN: 0275943062 9780275943066
OCLC Number: 25246186
Description: xviii, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: the importance of music to people / Rudolf E. Radocy --
Popular music as politics and protest / Jerome Rodnitzky --
"Blues what I am": blues consciousness and social protest / Fred J. Hay --
Proud to be an American: patriotism in country music / Melton A. McLaurin --
"Still boy-meets-girl stuff": popular music and war / Jeffrey C. Livingston --
Social and geographic characteristics of country music / James E. Akenson --
The music of the dispossessed: the rise of the blues / William Barlow --
Emerging from America's underside: the black musician from ragtime to jazz / Burton W. Peretti --
Race, class, and ethnicity among swing musicians / Kenneth J. Bindas --
Rock and roll and the working class / James R. McDonald --
Rock is youth/youth is rock / Deena Weinstein --
Music as commodity: effect and influence / Scott John Hammond --
The development of Tin Pan Alley / Craig H. Roell --
Small business and the recording industry / Martin Laforse --
The business of popular music: a short history / Patrick R. Parsons --
Taking care of business: the commercialization of rock music / George M. Plasketes --
(cont.) The African-American contribution to jazz / William Howland Kenney --
The day Hank Williams died: cultural collision in country music / Nolan Porterfield --
Swing and segregation / Charles A. Nanry --
The role and image of African American in rock and roll / Charles R. Warner --
Equal time: a historical overview of women in jazz / Linda Dahl --
Women and country music / Karen Saucier Lundy --
One voice: the legacy of women singers in popular music / Therese L. Lueck --
Lyrical sexism in popular music: a quantitative examination / Virginia W. Cooper --
The ragtime controversy / David Joyner --
Debating with Beethoven: understanding the fear of early jazz / Kathy J. Ogren --
Sounds of seduction: sex and alcohol in country music lyrics / Charles Jaret and Jacqueline Boles --
The homogenization of early rock and roll / Richard Aquila --
Conclusion: the impact of popular music in society / John Orman.
Responsibility: edited by Kenneth J. Bindas.

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