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Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA with CD, 3/E
Reebee Garofalo, University of Massachusetts at Boston

ISBN-10: 0131897853
ISBN-13:  9780131897854

Publisher:  Pearson
Copyright:  2005
Format:  Paper Bound with Disk; 528 pp
Published:  08/03/2004


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For undergraduate courses in the History of Popular Music, the History of Rock and Roll, American Popular Music and American Popular Song.

Rockin' Out provides a comprehensive social history of popular music in the United States from the heyday of Tin Pan Alley to the current sounds of electronic dance music and teen pop, from the invention of the phonograph to the promise of the Internet. It offers an analysis and critique of the music itself and the conditions of its production and consumption. The text is organized chronologically and thematically around particular genres/styles of music and addresses such dimensions as race, class, gender, ethnicity, technology, copyright and the structure of the music industry as they affect the development of the music.

 


Features

Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music Fold-out Chart
  • 700 entries dynamically chronicle the development of pop/rock music.
  • Organized by chronology, style, and theme.

    • Allows instructors to use the text for a whole course, or create individual units of interest.

  • Accessible, jargon-free writing style.

    • Draws students into the text.

  • An abundance of information is presented—Provides the historical context for the music that dominated popular taste from the second half of the 20th century to the new millennium.

    • Orients students to important historical facts.

  • Cross-cultural and multi-cultural discussion of seemingly opposite genres—e.g., Blues and country, disco and punk.

    • Provides students with useful and seldom made comparisons among genres and styles.

  • Three chapters devoted to the pre-conditions for rock and roll—Including the musical influences, technological advances, and industry developments.

    • Provides students with important historical context.

  • Race and gender issues—Discussed with extensive examples.

    • Enables students to explore important dividing lines.

  • The impact of technology on the music scene is covered.

    • Shows students how technology shapes production and consumption of popular music.

  • Music's political context and the power of consumer preferences is explored.

    • Shows students that music and fans are an important social force.

  • Historical coverage updated to 2003—Electronic dance music; women in rock, teen pop, Latin(o) popular music; contemporary rap and r&b/hip hop.

    • Provides students with comprehensive coverage to the present day.

  • Future of music chapter added—Music industry in the digital age—With sections on digital file swapping, music after 9/11, and the popular styles that followed.

    • Provides students with a concluding, wrap-up chapter that addresses future trends.

  • More user-friendly format—Artist and song lists converted from text into easy-to-understand tables.

    • Provides students with a graphic sense of historical patterns and preserves the narrative for more important analytic points.

  • Updated song index.

    • Provides students with a text that is useful as a sourcebook.

  • CD Sampler of popular music—Drawn from the music covered in the text.

    • Provides students with an audio reinforcement of material covered.

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    Table of Contents



    Introduction: Definitions, Themes, and Issues.


     1. Mass Technology and Popular Taste: The Tin Pan Alley Era.


     2. Blues and Country Music: Mass Media and the Construction of Race.


     3. “Good Rockin' Tonight”: The Rise of Rhythm and Blues.


     4. Crossing Cultures: The Eruption of Rock 'n' Roll.


     5. The Empire Strikes Back: The Reaction to Rock 'n' Roll.


     6. Popular Music and Political Culture: The Sixties.


     7. Music vs. Markets: The Fragmentation of Pop.


     8. Punk and Disco: The Poles of Pop.


     9. Music Videos, Superstars, and Mega-Events: The Eighties.


    10. Rap and Metal: Youth Culture and Censorship.


    11. Mainstreaming Alternatives: Packaging Pop for the New Millennium.


    12. The Future of Music.


    Bibliography.


    Index.


    Song Index.


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    • Rockin Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A., 5/E
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    "ROCKIN' OUT: Popular Music in the USA is a vital addition to the history of America's most popular product. Reebee Garofalo takes the reader from pop to rock 'n' roll through punk and rap, always careful to assign credit to African-American inspiration and pioneers. Everyone is here—performers, producers, engineers. salesmen, hucksters, and geniuses. If you want to know who put rock and roll in rock 'n' roll, and how and why it happened, read this book." — Julian Bond, Chairman, NAACP

    "Garofalo presents a fascinating account of American popular music—its evolution and exploitation by the music industry. While discussing the many forms that comprise this tradition, he explores the role of race, culture. class, technology, and profit in its production and mass marketing. The most comprehensive survey of post-World War 11 American popular music to date, ROCKIN' OUT is a book every popular music enthusiast must read." — Portia K. Maultsby, Ethnomusicologist, Indiana University/Bloomington

    "ROCKIN' OUT is right on! Compelling, comprehensive, and complete. this book represents the history of popular music in the U.S.A. in a way that we've never seen before. Garofalo knows the artists, the audience, arid the industry, and he tells their stories in original and insightful ways. But he also connects popular music to the social world that gives it determinate shape, explaining how commercial forces, mass migration, urban life, and consumer culture have shaped the origins and evolution of the music we love. From Sinatra to Springsteen, from Motown to Madonna, from Tin Pan Alley to Tupac Shakur, Garofalo deftly mixes understanding and empathy with keen critical analysis..." — George Lipsitz, Professor, American Studies, University of California/Santa Cruz


    Author Bios

    Reebee Garofalo has taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston since 1978. He is the co-author of Rock 'n' Roll is Here to Pay (1977), editor of Rockin' the Boat (1992), and co-editor of Policing Pop (2003). He has written numerous articles and lectured internationally on a broad range of subjects relating to popular music and the music industry and serves on the editorial collective of the Journal of Popular Music Studies. As a fan, musician, and educator, he is immersed in music, particularly its use as a community resource and an educational tool.

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