The pop, rock, and soul reader: histories and debates

pt. 1: Before 1950. Irving Berlin in Tin Pan Alley. Irving Berlin and the Crucible of God / Charles Hamm

Technology, the dawn of modern popular music, and the "king of Jazz." On wax / Paul Whiteman and Mary Margaret McBride

Big band swing music : race and power in the music business. Black music's on top; white jazz stagnant / Marvin Freedman ; The dance band business: a study in Black and White / Irving Kolodin

Solo pop singers and new forms of fandom. The bobby sox have wilted, but the memory remains fresh / Martha Weinman Lear

Hillbilly and race music. Thar's gold in them Hillbillies / Kyle Crichton

Blues people and the classic blues. From Blues people: the Negro experience in white America and the music that developed from it / Leroi Jones

The empress of the blues. From Hear me talkin' to ya: the story of jazz as told bye the men who made it / Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff

At the crossroads with Son House. Son House : living king of Delta / Jerry Gilbert

From race music to Rhythm and blues : T-Bone Walker. T-Bone Walker: father of the blues / Kevin Sheridan and Peter Sheridan

Jumpin' the blues with Louis Jordan. Bands dug by the beat: Louis Jordan / Down Beat ; From Honkers and shouters: the golden years of rhythm and blues / Arnold Shaw

On the bandstand with Johnny Otis. From Upside your head! Rhythm and blues on Central Avenue / Johnny Otis

The producers answer back : the emergence of the "indie" record company. Indies' surprise survival: small labels' ingenuity and skill pay off / Bill Simon ; From Honkers and shouters: the golden years of rhythm and blues / Arnold Shaw

Country music as folk music, country music as novelty. American folk tunes: cowboy and hillbilly tunes and tunesters / Billboard

Corn of plenty / Newsweek.

pt. 2: The 1950s. Country music approaches the mainstream. Country music goes to town / Rufus Jarman

Rhythm and blues in the early 1950s : B.B. King. From Honkers and shouters: the golden years of rhythm and blues / Arnold Shaw

"The house that Ruth Brown built." From Miss rhythm: the autobiography of Ruth Brown, rhythm and blues legend / Ruth Brown (with Andrew Yule)

Ray Charles, or when Saturday night mixed it up with Sunday morning. From Brother Ray: Ray Charles' own story / Ray Charles and David Ritz

Jerry Wexler : a life in R & B. From Rhythm and the blues: a life in American music / Jerry Wexler and David Ritz

The growing threat of rhythm and blues. Top names now singing the blues as newcomers roll on R & B tide

A warning to the music business / Variety

From Rhythm and blues to rock 'n' roll : the songs of Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry : rock lives! / Norman Jopling

Little Richard : boldly going where no man had gone before. From The life and times of Little Richard : the quasar of rock / Charles White

Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Rockabilly. Sam Phillips interview / Elizabeth Kaye

Rock 'n' roll meets the popular press

The Chicago defender defends rock 'n' roll. Bias against 'rock 'n' roll' latest bombshell in Dixie / Rob Roy

The music industry fight against rock 'n' roll : Dick Clark's teen-pop empire and the payola scandal. Music biz goes round and round: it comes out Clarkola / Peter Bunzel

Mr. Clark and colored payola / New York Age.

pt. 3: The 1960s

Brill Building and the girl groups. From Will you still love me tomorrow? Girl groups from the 50s on ... / Charlotte Greig

From surf to smile. Interview with Brian Wilson / Richard Cromelin

Urban folk revival. Songs of the silent generation / Gene Bluestein ; Folk singing : Sibyl with guitar / Time

Bringing it all back home : Dylan at Newport. Newport Folk Festival, 1965 / Irwin Silber

Newport Folk Festival, 1965 / Paul Nelson

"For a man to be at ease, he must not tell al he know, nor say all he sees." Sing out! an interview with Bob Dylan / John Cohen and Happy Traum

From R & B to soul. From Rhythm and the blues : a life in American music / Jerry Wexler and David Ritz

No town like Motown. Berry Gordy : a conversation with Mr. Motown / Harvey Kubernik

The Godfather of soul and the beginnings of funk. From The Godfather of soul / James Brown (with Bruce Tucker)

"The blues changes from day to day." Otis Redding interview / Jim Delehant

Aretha Franklin earns respect. Aretha Franklin : Sister Soul: eclipsed singer gains new heights" / Phyl Garland

The Beatles, the "British invasion," and cultural respectability. What songs the Beatles sang ... / William Mann ; Musicologically ... / Theodore Strongin

A Hard Day's Night and Beatlemania. Bravo Beatles! / Andrew Sarris ; Beatlemania: girls just want to have fun / Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs

England swings, and the Beatles evolve on Revolver and Sgt. Pepper. Pop Eye: on 'Revolver' / Richard Goldstein

It's getting better / Jack Kroll

The British art school blues. Rebels with a beat / Ray Coleman

The Stones versus the Beatles. Records : rock, etc. : the big ones / Ellen Willis

If you're goin' to San Francisco. Dead like live thunder / Ralph J. Gleason

The kozmic blues of Janis Joplin. We look at our parents and ... / Nat Hentoff

Jimi Hendrix and the electronic guitar. Second dimension : Jimi Hendrix in action / Bob Dawbarn

Rock meets the avant-garde : Frank Zappa. Zappa and the Mothers : ugly can be beautiful / Sally Kempton

The aesthetics of rock. Pop Eye: evaluating media / Richard Goldstein

Festivals : the good, the bad, and the ugly. Review of various artists, Woodstock / J.R. Young

Altamount, California, December 6, 1969 / George Paul Csicsery.

pt. 4: The 1970s. The sound of autobiography: singer-songwriters, Carole King. Carole King : 'You can get to know me through my music' / Robert Windeler

Exclusive Joni Mitshell interview. Joni Mitchell : an interview (part 1) / Penny Valentine

Sly Stone : "The myth of Staggerlee." From Mystery train: images of America in rock 'n' roll music / Greil Marcus

Not-so-"Little" Stevie Wonder. The formerly little Stevie Wonder / Ben Fong-Torres

Parliament drops the bomb. George Clinton : ultimate liberator of constipated notions / W.A. Brower

Heavy metal meets the counterculture. Review of Led Zeppelin / John Mendelsohn ; Black Sabbath don't scare nobody / Ed Kelleher

Led Zeppelin speaks! The Crunge : Jimmy Page gives a history lesson / Dave Schulps

"I have no message whatsoever." David Bowie interview / Cameron Crone

Rock me, Amadeus. Keith Emerson / Domenic Milano ; From Yesstories: Yes in their own words / Tim Morse

The global phenomenon of raggae. Third-world theme of Bob Marley / Robert Hilburn

Get on up disco. The dialectic of disco : gay music goes straight / Andrew Kopkind

Punk : the sound of criticism? A conservative impulse in the New Rock Underground / James Wolcott

Punk crosses the Atlantic. Rebels against the system / Caroline Coon

Punk to new wave? The B-52s' American graffiti / Stephen Holden

UK new wave. The Elvis (Costello, that is) interview / Allan Jones.

pt. 5: The 1980s. Thriller begets the "King of Pop." I'm white! What's wrong with Michael Jackson? / Greg Tate ; Don't stop 'til you get enough : Bruce Swedien remembers the times with Michael Jackson / Daryl Easlea

Madonna and the performance of identity. Venus of the radio waves / Camille Paglia

Bruce Springsteen : reborn in the USA. Little Egypt from Asbury Park : and Bruce Springsteen don't crawl on his belly, neither / David Marsh ; The real thing : Bruce Springsteen / Simon Frith

R & B in the 1980s : to cross over or not to cross over? From The death of rhythm and blues / Nelson George

Heavy metal thunders on! Purity and power : total, unswerving devotion to heavy metal form : Judas Priest and the Scorpions / J.D. Considine

Metal in the late eighties : glam or thrash? Metallica / Richard Gehr

Parents want to know : heavy metal, the PMRC, and the public debate over decency. Record labeling : hearing before the Committee on commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, 99th Congress, September 19, 1985

Postpunk goes Indie. What is this thing called hardcore? / Al Flipside

Hip-hop, don't stop. B-beats bombarding Bronx: mobile dj starts something with oldie r & b disks / Robert Ford Jr. ; Jive talking N.Y. djs rapping away in Black discos / Robert Ford Jr.

"The music is a mirror. Hip hop madness : from Def Jams to Cold Lampin', rap is our music / Harry Allen ; Girls ain't nothing but trouble / Carol Cooper

Where rap and heavy metal converge. There's a new sound in pop music : bigotry / Jon Pareles.

pt. 6: The 1990s and beyond . Hip-hop into the 1990s : gangstas, fly girls, and the big bling-bling. Fear of a rap planet / J.D. Considine

Nuthin' but a "G" thang. Snoop Dogg's gentle hip hop growl / Touré

Keeping it a little too real. Rap sheet / Sam Gideon Anso and Charles Rappleye ; Party over / Selwyn Seyfu Hinds ; Town criers / Natasha Stovall

Women in rap. Hip-Hop Nation / Christopher John Farley

The beat goes on. Eminem's old words aren't hip-hop's biggest problem / Renee Graham

From Indie to alternative to ... Seattle? A Seattle slew / Dave DiMartino

Grunge turns to scrunge. Over & out : Indie rock values in the age of alternative million sellers / Eric Weisbard

"We are the world"? Immigration and assimilation : Rai, Reggae, and Bhangramuffin / George Lipsitz

Genre or gender? The resurgence of the singer-songwriter. Tori Amos : pain for sale / Robert L. Doerschuk

Public policy and pop music history collide. Empire of the air / Jenny Toomey

Electronica is in the house. Historia Electronica preface / Simon Reynolds

R & B divas go retro. The new conscience of pop music / Ann Powers

Country in the post-Urban cowboy era. Garth Brooks : meet Nashville's new breed of generously stetsoned crooner / Mark Cooper ; Chicks against the machine / Charles Taylor

Performance as simulacrum, boy bands, and other 21st-century epiphanies. Jukebox culture : how I learned to stop worrying and love the boy band / Joshua Clover ; Idol pursuits / Nina C. Ayoub

Lady Gaga and the triumph of camp. Ladies wild : how not dumb is Gaga? / Sasha Frere-Jones

The end of history, the mass marketing of trivia, and a world of copies without originals. The kids aren't alright ... they're amazing / Jay Babcock

Ruled by Frankenmusic / Robert Everett-Green ; Why file-sharing will save Hollywood, music / Eliot Van Buskirk.