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Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA
Reebee Garofalo, University of Massachusetts at Boston

ISBN-10: 0205137032
ISBN-13: 9780205137039

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1997
Format: Paper; 484 pp
Published: 09/26/1996
Status: Out of Print

Suggested retail price: $25.00

This book proceeds from the assumption that music is always a social indicator; that is, it tells us something about the world around us. It responds to, mirrors, and influences the society in which we live. This comprehensive social history is organized chronologically around themes and issues which explicate the connection between music and other social processes. These include the multicultural influences in US popular music; the impact of technological advances; the significance of class, race, gender, ethnicity, and region; the importance of political context; and the power of consumer preferences.

Rockin' Out is necessarily encyclopedic; still, it balances information with analysis. The text begins with the invention of sound recording and the rise of Tin Pan Alley, and proceeds through discussions of blues, country, and rhythm and blues as historical background. As such, it provides students with significant discussions of the preconditions and formative influences of the music. Garofalo discusses rock and soul, punk and disco, rap and metal, and alternative music as well as all of the sub-genres and stylistic variants of these sounds. This is the only text that covers the total range of US popular music in the 20th century, locates them in their social context, and provides an interdisciplinary analysis of their significance.

Orients a novice to important historical facts with an abundance of information.

Raises cross-cultural and multi-cultural discussion of seemingly opposite genres (e.g. blues & country, punk & disco).

Devotes three chapters to the musical influences, technological advances, and industry developments that were pre-conditions for rock and roll (Chapters 2-4).

Covers race and gender issues with frank discussion and extensive examples.

Covers the impact of technology on the music scene—where it was and where it's headed.

Reveals the importance of music's political context and the power of consumer preferences.

Preface.

Introduction: Definitions, Themes, and Issues.

Into the Twentieth Century: Popular Music and Mass Culture.

Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth of a New Era.

Marketing and the Politics of Race, Language, and Gender.

Regulating Popular Music.

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

Sound Recording: From the Cylinder to the Disc.

Tin Pan Alley Constructs the Mainstream Tradition.

Commercial Broadcasting: A Very Private Enterprise.

Hollywood Bolsters Tin Pan Alley.

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

Blues and Country: More Equal Than Separate.

“Race” Music: The Popular Sounds of Black America.

“Hillbilly” Music: The White Working-Class Country Cousin.

The Dissemination of Blues and Country: More Separate than Equal.

The Long Road Back for Records.

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

The Publishers and the Broadcasters: ASCAP vs. BMI.

Enter the Deejay: The Broadcasters vs. the AFM.

From Big Bands to Solo Singers.

The Major Labels Reclaim Country Music.

The Independents Promote Rhythm and Blues.

High Fidelity/Low Overhead.

Television and the Suppression of FM Broadcasting.

Independent Radio: Deejays in Your Face.

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

Cultural Diversity and the Politics of Race and Gender.

Structural Changes in the Music Industry.

Sounds of the Cities.

Doo Wop: The Intersection of Gospel, Jazz, and Pop.

Rockabilly: The Country Strain.

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

The Established Powers Fight Back.

Schlock Rock: Enter the White Middle Class.

The Official Attack of Rock 'n' Roll.

Surf's Up!

6. Popular Music and Political Culture: The Sixties.

The Civil Rights Movement and Popular Music .

The British Invasion Occupies the Pop Charts.

Breaking the Sounds of Silence.

Against the Grain: The Counterculture.

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

The Music Industry: A Sound Investment.

Creativity and Commerce: Rock As Art.

Sweeter Soul Music.

Singer/Songwriters, Soft Rock Solutions, and More.

Women's Music: The Feminist Alternative.

From Country Rock to Southern Boogie.

Mad With Power: Heavy Metal.

All That Glitters Doesn't Sell Gold.

8. Punk and Disco: The Poles of Pop.

Punk vs. Disco.

Punk: Rock as (White) Noise.

Disco: The Rhythm Without The Blues.

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

Early Music Television: They Want Their MTV.

Superstars: The Road to Economic Recovery.

Charity Rock and Mega-Events: Who Is the World?

Technology and the New International Music Industry.

10. Rap and Metal: Youth Culture and Censorship.

The Continuing History of Heavy Metal.

Hip Hop, Don't Stop.

Popular Music and the Politics of Censorship.

11. Alternative to What?

Strange Bedfellows: Alternative and the Mainstream.

Marketing Categories and Monster Contracts.

Country and R&B: The Other Alternatives.

Lollapalooza: Countercultural Sensibilities, Mainstream Clout.

Bibliography.

Index.

American Music (Music)
Introduction to Rock Music (Music)

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For one semester/quarter undergraduate courses in the History of Rock, History of Popular Music, American Popular Music, and American Popular Song.

Rockin' Out offers a comprehensive social history of popular music in the United States that takes the reader from the invention of the phonograph to the promise of the Internet, from the heyday of Tin Pan Alley to the present day sounds of singer-songwriters, pop country crossovers, rock, and contemporary hip hop. It offers an analysis and critique of the music itself as well as how it is produced and marketed, including such recent phenomena as the rise of television idols, the introduction of reggaeton, and the return of protest music.

Accessibly written, this 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.

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