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The blues, rock-and-roll, and racism. The birth of the blues ; From the rural south to the urban north ; Muddy Waters and Chicago R&B ; The Wolf ; Other chess discoveries ; The independent sweepstakes ; The R&B market ; From R & B to rock-and-roll: Little Richard and Chuck Berry ; Social change and rock-and-roll ; Racist backlash ; The music industry vs. rock-and-roll ; The blanching of rock ; The story of Arthur "big boy" crudup -- Elvis and rockabilly. Rockabilly roots ; The rockabilly sound ; Sun Records and Elvis ; "The killer" ; "Blue suede shoes" ; Johnny Cash ; The sun rockabilly stable ; The Decca challenge ; Rockabilly sweeps the nation ; The selling of Elvis Presley ; Reactions against the Presley mania ; Elvis goes to Hollywood -- Dick Clark, Don Kirshner, and the teen market. Lost idols ; The booming teen market ; Dick Clark and American Bandstand ; Clark's creations ; The Payola investigation ; Don Kirshner takes charge ; The sounds on the streets ; The girl groups ; The dream -- Surfboards and hot rods: California, here we come. The new American empire ; Surfing U.S.A. ; The sound of surf ; The Beach Boys ; Jan and Dean ; Drag city -- Bob Dylan and the new frontier. Songs of protest ; The folk revival ; Civil rights on a new frontier ; Bob Dylan: the music of protest ; Joan Baez ; The singer-activists ; Dylan's disenchantment ; Folk rock -- The British invasion of America. The mods, the rockers, and the Skiffle craze ; The early Beatles ; Manager Brian Epstein ; The toppermost of the poppermost ; The Beatles invade America ; The Mersey beat ; The Monkees ; The British blues invasion and the Rolling Stones ; The Stones turn raunchy ; Success ; The Who ; The blues onslaught -- Motown: The sound of integration. Motown: the early years ; Civil rights in the Great Society ; The sound of integration ; The Supremes on the assembly line ; The Motown stable -- Acid rock. The beats ; The reemergence of the beats: the New York connection ; The Haight-Ashbury scene ; The hippie culture ; Acid rock: the trip begins ; Rock-and-roll revolution ; Psychedelic London ; The decline and fall of hippiedom -- Fire from the streets. Soul music ; Black soul in White America -- Militant blues on campus. Campus unrest ; The psychedelic blues ; Heavy metal ; The rebirth of the blues ; Woodstock and the end of an era -- Soft sounds of the seventies. Miles ahead ; Classical rock ; Back to the country ; Seventies folk -- The era of excess. The "me" decade ; Elton John ; Heavy-metal theater ; Art pop in the arena ; Funk from outer space ; Disco ; Corporate rock -- Punk rock and the new generation. New York punk ; The Sex Pistols and British punk ; The British punk legion ; Rock against racism ; The Jamaican connection: reggae and ska ; The independent labels ; Right-wing reaction ; The decline of punk ; Post-punk depression ; The new wave -- I want my MTV. MTV and the video age ; The new romantics ; MTV goes electro-pop ; MTV and Michaelmania ; The Jackson legacy ; Pop goes the metal -- The promise of rock-and-roll. The boss ; The benefits ; Children of the sixties ; Classic rock and the compact disc ; Country boomers -- The generation X blues. The hardcore generation ; Thrash metal ; Grunge -- The rave revolution and Britpop. House and techno ; A rave new world ; The dark side of the jungle ; Armchair techno ; BritPop -- The many faces of hip-hop. The old school ; The second wave ; Gangsta ; Young, gifted, and Black ; Techno hop ; Trip-hop ; The return of Shaft ; Hip-hop pop ; Spice World -- Metal Gumbo: rockin' in the twenty-first century. Nu-metal pioneers ; The rap-rock explosion ; Nu-metal anthems ; The rock industry in the age of the Internet -- Music, politics, and rock against Bush. Music, politics, and social activism ; Celebrity politics ; Rock against Bush. |
