Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA with CD (3rd Edition) [Paperback]

Reebee Garofalo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 13, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0131897853 | ISBN-13: 978-0131897854 | Edition: 3

Rockin' Out provides a comprehensive social history of popular music in the United States from the heyday of Tin Pan Alley to the current sounds of electronic dance music and teen pop, from the invention of the phonograph to the promise of the Internet. It offers an analysis and critique of the music itself and the conditions of its production and consumption. The book is organized chronologically and thematically around particular genres/styles of music and addresses such dimensions as race, class, gender, ethnicity, technology, copyright and the structure of the music industry as they affect the development of the music. The author examines the Tin Pan Alley era, mass media and the construction of race, the rise of rhythm and blues, the eruption of rock 'n' roll, the reaction to rock 'n' roll, the sixties, fragmentation of pop, the poles of pop, the eighties, youth culture and censorship, packaging pop for the new millennium and the future of music. For music fans and historians.

Editorial Reviews

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"ROCKIN' OUT: Popular Music in the USA is a vital addition to the history of America's most popular product. Reebee Garofalo takes the reader from pop to rock 'n' roll through punk and rap, always careful to assign credit to African-American inspiration and pioneers. Everyone is here—performers, producers, engineers. salesmen, hucksters, and geniuses. If you want to know who put rock and roll in rock 'n' roll, and how and why it happened, read this book." — Julian Bond, Chairman, NAACP

"Garofalo presents a fascinating account of American popular music—its evolution and exploitation by the music industry. While discussing the many forms that comprise this tradition, he explores the role of race, culture. class, technology, and profit in its production and mass marketing. The most comprehensive survey of post-World War 11 American popular music to date, ROCKIN' OUT is a book every popular music enthusiast must read." — Portia K. Maultsby, Ethnomusicologist, Indiana University/Bloomington

"ROCKIN' OUT is right on! Compelling, comprehensive, and complete. this book represents the history of popular music in the U.S.A. in a way that we've never seen before. Garofalo knows the artists, the audience, arid the industry, and he tells their stories in original and insightful ways. But he also connects popular music to the social world that gives it determinate shape, explaining how commercial forces, mass migration, urban life, and consumer culture have shaped the origins and evolution of the music we love. From Sinatra to Springsteen, from Motown to Madonna, from Tin Pan Alley to Tupac Shakur, Garofalo deftly mixes understanding and empathy with keen critical analysis..." — George Lipsitz, Professor, American Studies, University of California/Santa Cruz

About the Author

Reebee Garofalo has taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston since 1978. He is the co-author of Rock 'n' Roll is Here to Pay (1977), editor of Rockin' the Boat (1992), and co-editor of Policing Pop (2003). He has written numerous articles and lectured internationally on a broad range of subjects relating to popular music and the music industry and serves on the editorial collective of the Journal of Popular Music Studies. As a fan, musician, and educator, he is immersed in music, particularly its use as a community resource and an educational tool.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (August 13, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131897853
• ISBN-13: 978-0131897854
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #628,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Formidable!!, December 12, 2006

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This review is from: Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA with CD (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

This book was truely beneficial in interpreting and learning music history. The pictures and articles relate very much to college students in the modern day. It was an easy read and as a professor it was easy to make exam questions based on readings. Je l'aime bien!