Rockin’ Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A, Updated Edition, 6th edition
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📚 Delivered within 24 hours via email Rockin’ Out: Popular Music in the USA analyzes the music and business of rock and roll. Taking readers from the invention of the phonograph to the promise of the Internet, this comprehensive text covers the rise of television idols, the proliferation of alternative sounds, the influence of digital production techniques, and more.
For the 6th Edition, longtime author Reebee Garofalo is joined by co-author Steve Waksman, a professor at Smith College and a heavily published rock scholar. Professor Waksman has thoroughly revised each chapter to reflect recent research and scholarship. Engaging contemporary material, especially in punk, rap and metal, explains recent developments in the genre and explores where rock may be headed next.
Published by Pearson (July 14th 2021) – Copyright © 2022
ISBN-13: 9780137533794
Subject: Music
Category: Types of Music
Description
Table of Contents
Introduction: Definitions, Themes and Issues
- Constructing Tin Pan Alley: From Minstrelsy to Mass Culture
- Blues, Jazz and Country: The Segregation of Popular Music
- “Good Rockin’ Tonight”: The Rise of Rhythm and Blues
- Crossing Cultures: The Eruption of Rock ‘n’ Roll
- The Empire Strikes Back: The Reaction to Rock ‘n’ Roll
- Popular Music and Political Culture: The Sixties
- Music Versus Markets: The Fragmentation of Pop
- Punk and Disco: The Poles of Pop
- Are We the World?: Music Videos, Superstars and Mega-Events
- Rap and Metal: The Voices of Youth Culture
- Repackaging Pop: The Changing Mainstream
- Changing Channels: Music and Media in the New Millennium
