Popular-music culture in America / Prince Dorough.
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New York :
Ardsley House Publishers,
©1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Foundations
- American pop grows. Stephen Foster ; Minstrelsy
- Ragtime and the blues. Scott Joplin ; Spirituals
- Growth of Jazz. Jazz pioneers ; New Orleans ; Chicago ; New York and Dixieland ; Bix Beiderbecke ; Bebop ; Miles Davis
- Swing era. Big-band beginnings ; Duke Ellington ; "Count" Basie ; Other swing-era bands
- Rise of the pop solo singer. Jolie ; Bessie Smith ; Ethel Waters ; Bing Crosby ; Ella Fitzgerald ; Frank Sinatra ; Nat King Cole ; Judy Garland
- Country music. Hillbilly ; Instruments ; Jimmie Rodgers ; Grand ole opry ; Dave Macon ; Roy Acuff ; Hillbilly becomes Country-western
- Broadway, from Vaudeville to Berlin. George M. Cohan ; Irving Berlin
- Broadway from Kern to the Gershwins. Jerome Kern ; George and Ira Gershwin
- Broadway, from Rodgers and Hart to Stephen Sondheim. Rodgers and Hammerstein ; Cole Porter
- Recording industry
- Tin Pan Alley
- Folk music revival. Early folk singers ; Revivalists
- Prelude to the rock era
- Elvis
- The Beatles
- Rock foundations. Dick Clark and American Bandstand ; Buddy Holly
- Rock in its adolescence. Dylan ; Soul ; Motown ; Woodstock ; Disco
- Rock at maturity. MTV arrives ; Michael Jackson ; Madonna ; Punk ; Rap ; Censorship.