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"Pop Music-USA"

An entertaining look at popular music -- jazz, Broadway, country, and rock -- showing how these musical styles reveal the subterranean shifts in American cultural values and attitudes.

Crisp, clear, accurate information on popular music from 1620 to 2003. Anderson's forty years' experience as a college professor, nightclub pianist, and ten years of research add up to a very strong book. He offers, chapter after chapter, an insider's view of the real meaning of the raw historical evidence. It is a potent mixture, indeed!

ISBN: 0915725029
1st Edition. Paperback.348 pages. 2004.

$24.95

Contents

Part I    A New point of View
1. The Aesthetics of Music
2. Utility to Recreation to Storage-Folk to Pop to Art

Part II   The Early Years
3. Colonial Times
4. European American Traditions
5. African American Traditions

Part III   A Pop Music Profession
6. The Concert Circuit
7. Tin Pan Alley
8. Popular Song Types and Forms
9. Early Music Comedy
10. The Blues
11. Ragtime and Stride Piano
12. Early Country Music
13. The Age of Dixieland

Part IV    A Pop Music Industry
14. The Big Bands
15. The Musical Stage
16. The Film Musical
17. The Western Influence in Country Music
18. Ownership and Control
19. Popular Music Goes to World War II
20. The Golden Days of Traditional Pop Singing
21. Rhythm and Blues
22. Country Music Moves Uptown
23. The Bebop Revolution
24. Funk and Free Form Jazz
25. The Birth of Rock and Roll
26. The Expansion and Mutation - New York
27. More Expansion and Mutation - Los Angeles and Detroit
28. The British Invasion
29. Acid Rock

Part V    A Global Megabusiness
30. Heavy Metal
31. The Fusion of Jazz and Rock
32. New Age
33. Disco
34. Reggae
35. Salsa
36. Rap
37. MTV
Appendix: Who Owns It All Today
Bibliography - Epilogue - Index

"Pop Music-USA"
in also available in loose-leaf format, Parts I and II, for semester structured courses.

Part 1 - Jazz to Country to Blues to Broadway

Contents

Part II - R&B to MTV

Chapter 1. The Aesthetics of Music
Chapter 2. Utility to Recreation to Storage: Folk to Pop to Art
Chapter 3. Rhythm and Blues
Chapter 4. The Birth of Rock and Roll
Chapter 5. Ownership and Control
Chapter 6. The Expansion and Mutation of Rock and Roll
Chapter 7. More Expansion and Mutation of Rock and Roll
Chapter 8. The British Invasion
Chapter 9. San Francisco Psychedelic Rock
Chapter 10. The Fusion of Jazz and Rock
Chapter 11. Heavy Metal
Chapter 12. Salsa
Chapter 13. Disco
Chapter 14. MTV
Chapter 15. Reggae
Chapter 16. Rap

 ISBN: 0536004935
1st Edition. Paperback. 1998

$19.95