Putting Popular Music in its Place Book

Acknowledgements; Preface;
1. Modernist narratives and popular music;
2. Rock and the facts of life;
3. Changing patterns in society and music: the US since World War II;
4. 'If I Were a Voice': or, the Hutchinson family and popular song as political and social protest;
5. Some thoughts on the measurement of popularity in music;
6. Elvis, a review;
7. Home cooking and American soul in black South African popular music;
8. Rock 'n' roll in a very strange society;
9. African-American music, South Africa and apartheid;
10. 'The constant companion of man': Separate Development, Radio Bantu and music;
11. Privileging the moment of reception: music and radio in South Africa;
12. Music and radio in the People's Republic of China;
13. Towards a new reading of Gershwin;
14. A blues for the ages;
15. Graceland revisited;
16. Dvorak in America: nationalism, racism and national race;
17. The last minstrel show?;
18. The Role of Rock, a review;
19. Genre, performance and ideology in the early songs of Irving Berlin;
20. Epilogue: John Cage revisited; Index.