American Popular Music: The age of rockTimothy E. Scheurer Popular Press, 1989 - 276 páginas Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll. Articles explore the theoretical dimensions of popular music studies; the music of the nineteenth century; and the role of black Americans in the evolution of popular music. Also included--the music of Tin Pan Alley, ragtime, swing, the blues, the influences of W. S. Gilbert and Rodgers and Hammerstein, and changes in lyric writing styles from the nineteenth century to the rock era. |
Índice
Introduction | 9 |
Country Music and American Values | 24 |
Introduction | 75 |
Resistance Rebellion and DeathRevisited | 94 |
Elvis Presley and the Myth of America | 102 |
The Evolution of the American Protest Song | 113 |
Introduction | 124 |
A New Poetry | 144 |
Its Sociological and Political | 168 |
If Ya Wanna End War and Stuff You Gotta Sing Loud | 179 |
Sex Role Standards in Popular Music | 185 |
Introduction | 197 |
Pop Punk and Subcultural Solutions | 220 |
A Music for the 1980s? | 240 |
From Performance to DadaSurrealism | 252 |
The Life and Lyrics of Bruce Springsteen | 258 |
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