Select a Chapter
- 1. A Matter of Style: Describing Popular Music
- 2. The Beginnings of American Popular Music
- 3. Emergence of Black Music
- 4. Popular Song in the Modern Era
- 5. The Swing Era
- 6. In from the Outskirts: Blues, Gospel, Country,
and Folk Music, 1925-1950
- 7. Latin Music in the United States
- 8. On the Charts, 1945-1954
- 9. Rock 'n' Roll, 1954-1964
- 10. The Rock Revolution: Rock and Black Music in the 1960s
- 11. Reactions to Rock: Established Styles in the Early Rock Era
- 12. Rock and R&B in the 1970s
- 13. Funk, Reggae, Disco, Punk: New Trends of the Late 1970s
- 14. Electronica and Rap
- 15. Beyond Rock: Pop, Rock, and R&B in the 1980s
- 16. Alternatives: Alternative, Heavy Metal, and Grunge after 1980
- 17. A World of Music: Popular Music at the Turn of a New Century
