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