Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century

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Part 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1 Preliminary Considerations
Chapter 4 The 19th Century's Close
Chapter 5 The African-American Input
Chapter 6 The New Breed of Songwriters
Chapter 7 Going After the Public
Chapter 8 Song in the Public Consciousness
Chapter 9 Notes
Chapter 10 2 A Closer Look at the Jazz Age
Chapter 11 Zeroing In on the 1920s
Chapter 12 Shouters and Crooners
Chapter 13 The Natural World of Popular Song
Chapter 14 Songs: Earnest and with Feeling
Chapter 15 The Torch Song
Chapter 16 Novelties and Dance Songs
Chapter 17 Disaster Strikes
Chapter 18 Notes
Chapter 19 3 Swing Time
Chapter 20 Entertainment Circles
Chapter 21 The Swing Era Begins
Chapter 22 The Transformation of the Singer
Chapter 23 Songs for the Recovery
Chapter 24 Novelties and Other One-of-a-Kind Songs
Chapter 25 Serious Songs
Chapter 26 Light Love Songs
Chapter 27 The More Sober Love Songs
Chapter 28 Notes
Chapter 29 4 Change: Different Music Cultures Come to the Fore
Chapter 30 The Generational Cold War
Chapter 31 Getting Music to Young People
Chapter 32 African-American Music
Chapter 33 Country and Western
Chapter 34 Folklike Music
Chapter 35 Rockabilly and the Start of Rock 'n' Roll
Chapter 36 Notes
Chapter 37 5 White-American and British Songs in a Decade of Turmoil
Chapter 38 Traditional Popular Music
Chapter 39 Varieties of Country Music
Chapter 40 The Counterculture
Chapter 41 Folk to Folk-Rock
Chapter 42 California Dreaming
Chapter 43 The British Invasion
Chapter 44 Notes
Chapter 45 6 Black-American Music Comes to the Fore in the 1960s
Chapter 46 Soul Music
Chapter 47 Funk
Chapter 48 Motown
Chapter 49 Notes
Chapter 50 7 Out of the Seventies
Chapter 51 Traditional Popular Music in the Seventies and Beyond
Chapter 52 Country and Western in the Seventies
Chapter 53 The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
Chapter 54 Reggae Migrates to the United States
Chapter 55 Disco and the Urge to Dance
Chapter 56 The Rebellious Posture: Heavy Metal
Chapter 57 Progressive to Punk
Chapter 58 Notes
Chapter 59 8 The Eighties and Nineties
Chapter 60 Country and Western Persists
Chapter 61 Changes in the Musical Landscape
Chapter 62 Celebrities in the Adolescent Arena
Chapter 63 New Options: Grunge, Alternative, and Indie
Chapter 64 Hip-Hop and Rap Take Over
Chapter 65 Notes
Chapter 66 9 A Temporary Ending
Chapter 67 Popular Culture at the Turn of the Century
Chapter 68 Counterthrust
Chapter 69 The Onset of the Older Fan
Chapter 70 In
Conclusion
Chapter 71 Notes
Part 72 Selected
Bibliography
Part 73 Index
Part 74 About the Author

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This is a study of the way in which popular words and music relate to American life. The question of what popular song was, and why it came into existence, as well as how each song fit within the context of the larger 20th Century society are considered and explained clearly and fruitfully. Songs of the Jazz Age and Swing Era are considered primarily in terms of song-types and their relation to the times. Post World War II songs are shown to have splintered into a multitude of different styles and variations within each style. Many 20th Century songs came to be closely identified with particular singers and performance groups, shifting the attention to the styles identified with particular performers and the audiences they reached. Tawa avoids overly-technical vocabulary, making this examination of hundreds of popular songs accessible to a wide variety of readers seeking to better their understanding of the often perplexing musical landscape of the time.

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provides diverse and interesting context for many American songs and song styles, and he explains the many exchanges between popular music and society in respect to politics and historical events....This book will be useful for American studies and history courses that embrace popular music and society as well as for music curricula. Recommended

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