I hear America singing : an introduction to popular music / David Kastin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Kastin, David.

Contributor:

• Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
• Popular music.
• United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 374 pages : illustrations, music ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, [2002]

Contents:

• Chapter 1 The Folk Ballad: Storytelling in Song 1
• Form Follows Function: the Anglo-American Folk Ballad 1
• Folk Song Collectors and Ballad Scholars: Outsiders Look in 2
• Ballad Stories and the Oral Tradition 3
• The Broadside Ballad: Journalism in Song 7
• New Country, New Ballads (and a Lot of Old Ones, Too) 7
• Folk Ballads and Popular Culture 10
• The African-American Narrative Song Tradition 12
• Corridos: Spanish Ballads in the New World 17
• Woody Guthrie: Father of the Modern Folk Ballad 22
• Protest and Propaganda 27
• Hootenannies and the Hit Parade 28
• The Folk Revival of the Sixties 30
• Chapter 2 In the Beginning ... There Was the Blues 41
• The Birth of the Blues 41
• The Country Blues: A Regional Guide 44
• Blues Lyrics and Themes 48
• The Classic Blues: Women in the Spotlight 57
• Race Records 58
• Enter Bessie Smith and Ma: Blues Royalty on Records 61
• Field Recording: Country Blues on Location 61
• Blues in the 1930s: Out With the Old, In With the New 65
• Muddy Waters and the Birth of the Big City Blues 69
• Pioneers of Electricity 72
• The Blues Had a Baby and They Named it Rock 'n' Roll 77
• Chapter 3 Jazz: The Sound of a New Century 81
• New Orleans: Birthplace of Jazz 81
• Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz 86
• 1917: Jazz on Record and on the Move 88
• The Jazz Age: Putting the Sin in Syncopation 90
• The Swing Era: Setting the Stage 107
• Benny Goodman: King of Swing 108
• Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got that Swing 113
• Count Basie: Last of the Blue Devils 115
• Lady Day 117
• The Bebop Revolution 126
• Changes on the Street 132
• Jazz at Mid-Century: Diversity and Divisiveness 141
• The Avant Garde: Out of the Mainstream 150
• Fusion: Jazz Plugs In 155
• Back to the Future: Whynton Marsalis and Neomainstream Jazz 160
• Chapter 4 R & B, Rockabilly, Rock 'n' Roll and Rock 165
• Hail, Hail Rock 'n' Roll 165
• Elvis Presley: Enter the King 176
• The Death of Rock 'n' Roll: Myth and Reality 187
• The Motown Empire: Hitsville, U.S.A. 193
• Atlantic Records and the Story of Soul 197
• Stax Records: Soulsville, U.S.A. 200
• Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul 203
• James Brown: Godfather of Soul 206
• The Tami Show: Celluloid Time Capsule (In Black and White) 208
• The British Are Coming ... 210
• The Folk Revival: Music With a Social Conscience 215
• From Rock 'n' Roll to Rock 221
• High Art/Big Business 227
• Supergroups and Guitar Heroes 233
• Woodstock Nation: Three Days of Peace and Music 240
• Chapter 5 Rock: From the Me Decade to the Millennium 249
• The Seventies: The Rise of Corporate Rock 249
• Heavy Metal: The Devil and the Power Chord 252
• The Singer-Songwriter: Poet Laureate of the Me Decade 255
• Art Rock: No Longer a Contradiction in Terms 259
• Black Music in the Seventies: Many Nations Under a Groove 266
• Rock at Mid-Decade: From the Mainstream to the Margins 272
• Disco Fever 277
• The Eighties and the Triumph of Pop 281
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun 292
• Metal Health in the 1990s 299
• Alternative to What? 304
• Rockin' at the End of the Millennium 310
• Chapter 6 Rap: Talking Drum of the Global Village 317
• To the Hip-Hop 318
• Everybody's Rapping: From Rhythm to Rhyme 324
• Rap on Wax: The First Generation 326
• Hip-Hop Nation: Into the Mainstream 329
• Gangsta Rap: Street Journalism or Action-Film Fantasy? 336
• Rap Goes Pop 342
• Rap Goes Co-Ed 343
• Rap at the Millennium: Funerals and Fragmentation 345.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-355) and index.
• Includes discography.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

013353376X

OCLC:

46619247

Online:

The Benjamin Franklin Library Fund Home Page