Issues of mass meditation
Introduction / Mellonee V. Burnim and Portia K. Maultsby
Intellectual history / Portia K. Maultsby and Mellonee V. Burnim with contributions from Susan Oehler.
pt. 1. Genres. Secular folk music / Dena J. Epstein with contributions from Rosita M. Sands
Religious music / Mellonee V. Burnim
Blues. Chronological overview / David Evans
The blues in transcultural contexts / Susan Oehler
Jazz. Chronological overview / Ingrid Monson
Interpreting jazz / Travis A. Jackson
Musical theater / Thomas L. Riis
Art/classical music. Chronological overview / Josephine R.B. Wright
Interpreting classical music / Olly Wilson
Rhythm and blues / Portia K. Maultsby
Soul / Portia K. Maultsby
Funk / Portia K. Maultsby
Disco and house / Kai Fikentscher
Hip-hop and rap / Dawn M. Norfleet.
pt. 2. Issues of mass mediation. The music industry. The popular music industry / Reebee Garofalo
The gospel music industry / Mellonee V. Burnim
Profiles of record labels. Motown / Charles Sykes
Philadelphia international / John A. Jackson.
pt. 3. Issues of gender. Women in African American music. Gospel / Mellonee V. Burnim
Blues / Daphne Duval Harrison
Women-identified music / Eileen M. Hayes
pt. 4. Musical agency. African American music as resistance. Antebellum period / Lawrence W. Levine
Civil rights movement / Bernice Johnson Reagon
Post-civil rights period / Mark Anthony Neal.
From the Audiobook CD - Second edition.
The translated African cultural and musical past / Portia K. Maultsby
African American instrument construction and music making / Ernest Brown
Secular folk music / Dena Epstein w/ Rosita Sands
Spirituals / Mellonee Burnim
Art/classical music / Josephine Wright
Musical theater / Thomas Riis
Rhythm and blues, R&B / Portia K. Maultsby
Soul / Portia K. Maultsby
Funk / Portia K. Maultsby
Disco and house / Kai Fikentscher
Detroit techno / Denise Dalphond
Hip-hop and rap / Dawn Norfleet.
