Introduction 1 Part I: Setting the Scene First Writer, of Music and on Music: William Billings: The New-England Psalm-Singer , 1770 20 Blackface Minstrelsy Extends Its Twisted Roots: T.D. Rice, "Jim Crow," c. 1832 22 Shape-Note Singing and Early Country: B.F. White and E.J. King, The Sacred Harp , 1944 25 Music in Captivity: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave : 1853 26 Champion of the White Male Vernacular: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass , 1855 28 Notating Spirituals: William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, eds.

, Slave Songs of the United States , 1867 30 First Black Music Historian: James Trotter, Music and Some Highly Musical People: The Lives of Remarkable Musicians of the Colored Race , 1878 32 Child Ballads and Folklore: James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads , 5 vols., 1882-1898 33 Women Not Inventing Ethnomusicology: Alice Fletcher, A Study of Omaha Indian Music , 1893 35 First Hit Songwriter, from Pop to Folk and Back Again: Morrison Foster, Biography, Songs and Musical Compositions of Stephen C. Foster , 1896 39 Americana Emerges: Emma Bell Miles, The Spirit of the Mountains , 1905 44 Documenting the Story: O.G. Sonneck, Bibliography of Early Secular American Music , 1905 45 Tin Pan Alley''s Sheet Music Biz: Charles K. Harris, How to Write a Popular Song , 1906 47 First Family of Folk Collecting: John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads , 1910 50 Proclaiming Black Modernity: James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man , 1912 52 Songcatching in the Mountains: Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians , 1917 54 Part II: The Jazz Age Stories for the Slicks: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers , 1920 62 Remembering the First Black Star: Mabel Rowland, ed.

, Bert Williams, Son of Laughter , 1923 64 Magazine Criticism across Popular Genres: Gilbert Seldes, The Seven Lively Arts , 1924 67 Harlem Renaissance: Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro: An Interpretation , 1925 69 Tin Pan Alley''s Standards Setter: Alexander Woollcott, The Story of Irving Berlin , 1925 71 Broadway Musical as Supertext: Edna Ferber, Show Boat , 1926 74 Father of the Blues in Print: W.C. Handy, ed., Blues: An Anthology , 1926 76 Poet of the Blare and Racial Mountain: Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues , 1926 78 Blessed Immortal, Forgotten Songwriter: Carrie Jacobs-Bond, The Roads of Melody , 1927 80 Tune Detective and Expert Explainer: Sigmund Spaeth, Read ''Em and Weep: The Songs Your Forgot to Remember , 1927 82 Pop''s First History Lesson: Isaac Goldberg: Tin Pan Alley: A Chronicle of the American Popular Music Racket , 1930 84 Roots Intellectual: Constance Rourke, American Humor: A Study of the National Character , 1931 85 Jook Ethnography, Inventing Black Music Studies: Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men , 1935 87 What He Played Came First: Louis Armstrong, Swing That Music , 1936 90 Jazz''s Original Novel: Dorothy Baker, Young Man with a Horn , 1938 94 Introducing Jazz Critics: Frederic Ramsey Jr. and Charles Edward Smith, eds., Jazzmen , 1939 95 Part III: Midcentury Icons Folk Embodiment: Woody Guthrie, Bound for Glory , 1943 104 A Hack Story Soldiers Took to War: David Ewen, Men of Popular Music , 1944 106 From Immigrant Jew to Red Hot Mama: Sophie Tucker, Some of These Days , 1945 108 White Negro Drug Dealer: Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , 1946 110 Composer of Tone Parallels: Barry Ulanov, Duke Ellington , 1946 111 Jazz''s Precursor as Pop and Art: Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis, They All Played Ragtime: The True Story of an American Music , 1950 114 Field Recording in the Library of Congress: Alan Lomax, Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz ," 1950 118 Dramatizing Blackness from a Distance: Ethel Waters with Charles Samuels, His Eye Is on the Sparrow , 1951 120 Centering Vernacular Song: Gilbert Chase, America''s Music , 1955 122 Writing about Records: Roland Gelatt, The Fabulous Phonograph: From Tin Foil to High Fidelity , 1955 124 Collective Oral History of Document Scenes: Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, eds., Hear Me Talkin'' to Ya: The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It , 1955 127 The Greatest Jazz Singer''s Star Text: Billie Holiday with William Dufty, Lady Sings the Blues , 1956 129 Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac, On the Road , 1957 133 Borderlands Folklore and Transnational Imaginaries: Américo Paredes, "With His Pistol in His Hands": A Border Ballad and Its Hero , 1958 136 New Yorker Critic of a Genre Becoming Middlebrow: Whitney Balliett, The Sound of Surprise: 46 Pieces on Jazz , 1959 141 Part IV.

Vernacular Counterculture Blues Revivalists: Samuel Charters, The Country Blues , 1959; Paul Oliver, Blues Fell This Morning: The Meaning of the Blues , 1960 148 Britpop in Fiction: Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners , 1959 151 Form-Exploding Indeterminacy: John Cage, Silence , 1961 153 Science Fiction Writer Pens First Rock and Roll Novel: Harlan Ellison, Rockabilly [Spider Kiss] , 1961 155 Pro-Jazz Scene Sociology: Howard Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance , 1963 159 Reclaiming Black Music: LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Blues People: Negro Music in White America , 1963 159 An Endless Lit, Limited Only in Scope: Michael Braun, "Love Me Do!": The Beatles Progress , 1964 162 Music as a Prose Master''s Jagged Grain: Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act , 1964 167 How to Succeed in .: M. William Krasilovsky and Sidney Schemel, This Business of Music , 1964 169 Schmaltz and Adversity: Sammy Davis Jr. and Burt Boyar, Yes I Can , 1965 171 New Journalism and Electrified Syntax: Tom Wolfe, Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby , 1965 173 Defining a Genre: Bill C. Malone, Country Music, U.S.A.: A Fifty-Year History , 1968 175 Swing''s Movers as an Alternate History of American Pop: Marshall and Jean Stearns, Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance , 1968 177 Rock and Roll''s Greatest Hyper: Nik Cohn, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom , 1969/1970 182 Ebony ''s Pioneering Critic of Black Pop as Black Power: Phyl Garland, The Sound of Soul: The Story of Black Music , 1969 184 Entertainment Journalism and the Power of Knowing: Lillian Roxon, Rock Encyclopedia , 1969 185 An Over-the-Top Genre''s First Reliable History: Charlie Gillett, The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll , 1970 187 Rock Critic of the Trivially Awesome: Richard Meltzer, The Aesthetics of Rock , 1970 188 Black Religious Fervor as the Core of Rock and Soul: Anthony Heilbut, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times , 1971 190 Jazz Memoir of "Rotary Perception" Multiplicity: Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog , 1971 193 Composing a Formal History: Eileen Southern, The Music of Black Americans , 1971 194 Krazy Kat Fiction of Viral Vernaculars: Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo , 1972 196 Derrière Garde Prose and Residual Pop Styles: Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 , 1972 198 Charts as a New Literature: Joel Whitburn, Top Pop Records, 1955-1972 , 1973 201 Selling Platinum across Formats: Clive Davis with James Willwerth, Clive, Inside the Record Business , 1975 203 Blues Relationships and Black Women''s Deep Songs: Gayl Jones, Corregidora , 1975 205 "Look a the World in a Rock ''n'' Roll Sense .

What Does That Even Mean?": Greil Marcus, Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ''n'' Roll Music , 1975 207 Cultural Studies Brings Pop from the Hallway to the Classroom: Hall and Tony Jefferson, eds., Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain , 1976 211 Life in Country for an Era of Feminism and Counterculture: Loretta Lynn with George Vecsey, Coal Miner''s Daughter , 1976 214 Introducing Rock Critics: Jim Miller, ed., The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll , 1976 216 Patriarchal Exegete of Black Vernacular as "Equipment for Living": Albert Murray, Stomping the Blues , 1976 219 Reading Pop Culture as Intellectual Obligation: Roland Barthes, Image--Music--Text , 1977 221 Paging through Books to Make History: Dean Epstein, Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War , 1977 223 Historians Begin to Study Popular Music: Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom , 1977 225 Musicking to Overturn Hierarchy: Christopher Small, Music, Society, Education , 1977 226 Drool Data and Stained Panties.