Includes bibliographical references and index.

(cont.) The African-American contribution to jazz / William Howland Kenney -- The day Hank Williams died: cultural collision in country music / Nolan Porterfield -- Swing and segregation / Charles A. Nanry -- The role and image of African American in rock and roll / Charles R. Warner -- Equal time: a historical overview of women in jazz / Linda Dahl -- Women and country music / Karen Saucier Lundy -- One voice: the legacy of women singers in popular music / Therese L. Lueck -- Lyrical sexism in popular music: a quantitative examination / Virginia W. Cooper -- The ragtime controversy / David Joyner -- Debating with Beethoven: understanding the fear of early jazz / Kathy J. Ogren -- Sounds of seduction: sex and alcohol in country music lyrics / Charles Jaret and Jacqueline Boles -- The homogenization of early rock and roll / Richard Aquila -- Conclusion: the impact of popular music in society / John Orman.

Introduction: the importance of music to people / Rudolf E. Radocy -- Popular music as politics and protest / Jerome Rodnitzky -- ""Blues what I am"": blues consciousness and social protest / Fred J. Hay -- Proud to be an American: patriotism in country music / Melton A. McLaurin -- ""Still boy-meets-girl stuff"": popular music and war / Jeffrey C. Livingston -- Social and geographic characteristics of country music / James E. Akenson -- The music of the dispossessed: the rise of the blues / William Barlow -- Emerging from America's underside: the black musician from ragtime to jazz / Burton W. Peretti -- Race, class, and ethnicity among swing musicians / Kenneth J. Bindas -- Rock and roll and the working class / James R. McDonald -- Rock is youth/youth is rock / Deena Weinstein -- Music as commodity: effect and influence / Scott John Hammond -- The development of Tin Pan Alley / Craig H. Roell -- Small business and the recording industry / Martin Laforse -- The business of popular music: a short history / Patrick R. Parsons -- Taking care of business: the commercialization of rock music / George M. Plasketes --