Putting Popular Music in its Place
- Author: Hamm, Charles
Although its scholarship, on its unique terms, is impeccable, this is not a book for a handful of scholars; it is a book about human survival - a green book in a grey world —
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Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Modernist narratives and popular music
- 2. Rock and the facts of life
- 3. Changing patterns in society and music: the US since World War II
- 4. 'If I Were a Voice': or, the Hutchinson family and popular song as political and social protest
- 5. Some thoughts on the measurement of popularity in music
- 6. Elvis, a review
- 7. Home cooking and American soul in black South African popular music
- 8. Rock 'n' roll in a very strange society
- 9. African-American music, South Africa and apartheid
- 10. 'The constant companion of man': Separate Development, Radio Bantu and music
- 11. Privileging the moment of reception: music and radio in South Africa
- 12. Music and radio in the People's Republic of China
- 13. Towards a new reading of Gershwin
- 14. A blues for the ages
- 15. Graceland revisited
- 16. Dvorak in America: nationalism, racism and national race
- 17. The last minstrel show?
- 18. The Role of Rock, a review
- 19. Genre, performance and ideology in the early songs of Irving Berlin
- 20. Epilogue: John Cage revisited
- Index.
