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CHAPTER 1. BEFORE 1950; 1. Technology, the Dawn of Popular Music, and the King of Jazz; 2. Big Band Swing Music; 3. Solo Pop Singers; 4. Hillbilly and Race Music; 5. Race Music and the Classic Blues; 6. Bessie Smith; 7. Country Blues/Delta Blues and Robert Johnson; 8. From Race Music to Rhythm and Blues; 9. T-Bone Walker; 10. Louis Jordan; 11. Johnny Otis; 12. Wynonie Harris; 13. The Producers Answer Back: The Emergence of the Indie Record Company; 14. Henry Glover; 15. Ahmet Ertegun; 16. Country Music as Folk Music, Country Music as Novelty; CHAPTER 2. THE 1950S; 1. Country Music Approaches the Mainstream; 2. Hank Williams; 3. Rhythm and Blues in the Early 1950s: B.B. King; 4. The House that Ruth Brown Built; 5. Ray Charles, or When Saturday Night Mixed it Up with Sunday Morning; 6. Jerry Wexler: A Life in R & B; 7. The Growing Threat of Rhythm and Blues; 8. From Rhythm and Blues to Rock 'n' Roll: The Songs of Chuck Berry; 9. Little Richard: Boldly Going Where No Man Had Gone Before; 10. Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Rockability; 11. Rock 'n' Roll Meets the Popular Press; 12. The Music Industry Fights Against Rock 'n' Roll: Dick Clark's Teen-Pop Empire and the Payola Scandal; CHAPTER 3. THE 1960S; 1. Brill Building; 2. Surf; 3. Urban Rock/Folk Rock; 4. Bob Dylan; 5. Dylan Meets the Press; 6. From R & B to Soul: Early 1960s Soul/R & B; 7. No Town like Motown; 8. James Brown and the Beginnings of Funk; 9. Southern Soul and Otis Redding; 10. Aretha Franklin; 11. The British Invastion, Part 1: The Beatles; 12. A Hard Day's Night, and Further Incursion into the World of Critical Respectability; 13. The British Invasion, Part 2: The Rolling Stones, Art School, and British Blues Revival; 14. The Stones vs. The Beatles; 15. The Who, The Kinks, and Other Deviant Phenomena; 16. San Francisco: The Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead; 17. Janis Joplin; 18. Santana; 19. Hendrix; 20. Rock Meets the Avant-Garde: Frank Zappa; 21. Pop/Bubblegum/Monkees; 22. The Aesthetics of Rock; 23. Festivals: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; CHAPTER 4. THE 1970S; 1. Where Did the Sixties Go?; 2. Singer-Songwriters; 3. Joni Mitchell: Do Singer-Songwriters Represent the Female Side of Rock?; 4. Funk-Sly Stone; 5. Not-so-little Stevie Wonder; 6. Parliament Drops the Bomb; 7. Heavy Metal Meets the Counterculture; 8. Led Zeppelin Speaks!; 9. Glam; 10. Rock Me Amadeus; 11. Jazz Fusion; 12. Get on Up Disco; 13. Punk: The Sound of Criticism?; 14. Punk Crosses the Atlantic; 15. Punk to New Wave?; 16. UK New Wave; CHAPTER 5. THE 1980S; 1. A Second British Invasion?; 2. Who Really Wanted Their MTV?; 3. Thriller Begets the King of Pop; 4. Madonna and the Performance of Identity; 5. Bruce Springsteen: Reborn in the USA; 6. R & B: Crossing Over or Going Under?; 7. Heavy Metal Thunders On!; 8. Metal in the Late Eighties: Glam or Trash?; 9. Post-Punk Goes Indie; 10. Alternative Brings the Noise; 11. Hip Hop, Don't Sto; CHAPTER 6. THE 1990S AND BEYOND; 1. Rap into the 90s: Gangstas, Playa-hatas, Fly Girls, and the Big Bling Bling; 2. Keeping It a Little Too Real; 3. Sampling the Old Bling Bling; 4. Women in Rap, Part II; 5. The Beat Goes On; 6. From Indie to Alternative to...Seattle; 7. Riot Girl; 8. Grunge Turns to Scrunge; 9. An American Tragedy; 10. Two Post-AlternativeIcons; 11. If We Are the World, then Who Are We and Where is the World?; 12. A Talking Head Writes; 13. Genre or Gender? The Year (or Two or Three) of the Girls; 14. Pubic Policy and Pop Music History Collide; 15. Electronica is in the House; 16. R & B Divas Go Retro; 17. What Have We Come To?