The
Rise and Fall of Popular Music
by Donald Clarke |
Author�s
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter
One
The Origins
of Popular Music
Chapter
Two
Minstrelsy,
and the War between the States
Chapter
Three
The Rise
of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley
Chapter
Four
The Ragtime
Era and the Coon Shouters
Chapter
Five
The Early
Years of Jazz
Chapter
Six
Broadway
and the Golden Age of Songwriting
Chapter
Seven
The Jazz
Age, the Great Depression and New Markets:
Race and
Hillbilly Music
Chapter
Eight
Big Band
Jazz
Chapter
Nine
The Swing
Era Begins
Chapter
Ten
Small-group
Jazz, the Jukebox and New Independent Labels
Chapter
Eleven
The 1940s:
War and Other Calamities
Chapter
Twelve
The Early
1950s: Frustration and Confusion
Chapter
Thirteen
Music
for Grown-ups
Chapter
Fourteen
Rock'n'Roll;
or, Black Music to the Rescue (Again)
Chapter
Fifteen
The Abdication
of a Generation
Chapter
Sixteen
A Last
Gasp of Innocence
Chapter
Seventeen
The 1960s:
A Folk Boom, a British Invasion,
The Soul
Years and the Legacy of an Era
Chapter
Eighteen
The Heat
Death of Popular Music
Chapter
Nineteen
Black
Music: Everybody's Still Doing It
Author�s
Afterward
Bibliography
Book
Review by Steve Schwartz
See also MusicWeb
Encyclopadia of Popular Music
edited by Donald Clarke