Rockin In Time

Understand the social and historical significance of rock-and-roll

Brief, authoritative, and current, Dave Szatmary's Rockin' in Time: A Social History of Rock-and-Roll, 8/e, weaves the major icons of rock-and-roll into a larger social/historical fabric. Rather than an exhaustive catalog of artists in rock history or a guide to learning musical notation, the book places rock-and-roll in the context of the social issues that surrounded and shaped it. Topics include the influence on rock music of such trends as the civil rights movement, political and economic shifts, demographical change and the baby boom, the development of the music business, and technology advances.

Dave Szatmary worked in the music industry and taught the history of rock and roll at several universities after earning his Ph.D. in American History at Rutgers University.  He has contributed to the All Music Guides to Rock, Jazz and Blues and wrote A Time to Rock (Schirmer’s) He also authored Shays’ Rebellion (University of Massachusetts Press, 1980), which has been made into a film and served as the basis for a History Channel program. Szatmary regularly reviews rock and jazz books.  He currently serves as the Vice Provost of Educational Outreach at the University of Washington, one of the premier professional and continuing education programs in the country that serves 50,000 students annually.  He is a noted expert and has been interviewed extensively by the media about online learning and higher education budgeting in addition to rock and roll.

In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents

2) Full Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1. The Blues, Rock-and-Roll, and Racism

Chapter 2. Elvis and Rockabilly

Chapter 3. The Teen Market: From Bandstand to Girl Groups

Chapter 4. Surfboards and Hot Rods: California, Here We Come

Chapter 5. The New Frontier

Chapter 6. The British Invasion of America: The Beatles

Chapter 7. The British Blues Invasion and Garage Rock

Chapter 6. Motown: The Sound of Integration

Chapter 9. Acid Rock

Chapter 10. Fire from the Streets

Chapter 11. Guitar Heroes and Heavy Metal Gods

Chapter 12. Back to the Country

Chapter 13. Escaping into the Seventies

Chapter 14. The Era of Excess

Chapter 15. Punk Rock and the New Generation

Chapter 16. The American Hardcore

Chapter 17. I Want My MTV

Chapter 18. The Promise of Rock-and-Roll

Chapter 19. Country Boomers

Chapter 20. Back to the Future: The Rave Revolution

Chapter 21. The Generation X Blues

Chapter 22. Post-Grunge Party

Chapter 23. The Hip-Hop Nation

Chapter 24. Metal Gumbo: Rockin’ in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 25. Age of the Internet

Chapter 26. Life in Wartime

Chapter 27. Country Counter-Revolution

Chapter 1. The Blues, Rock-and-Roll, and Racism

The Birth of the Blues

From the Rural South to the Urban North

Muddy Waters and Chicago R&B

The Wolf

Bo Diddley and Other Chess Discoveries

Modern Records: B. B. King, Elmore James, and JohnLee Hooker

Other Independents

The R&B Market

From R&B to Rock-and-Roll: Little Richard and Chuck Berry

Social Change and Rock-and-Roll

Racist Backlash

The Music Industry versus Rock-and-Roll

The Blanching of Rock

The Story of Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup

Chapter 2. Elvis and Rockabilly

Rockabilly Roots

The Rockabilly Sound

Sun Records and Elvis

“The Killer”

“Blue Suede Shoes”

Johnny Cash

The Sun Rockabilly Stable

The Decca Challenge

Rockabilly Sweeps the Nation

The Selling of Elvis Presley

Reactions Against the Presley Mania

Elvis Goes to Hollywood

Chapter 3. The Teen Market: From Bandstand to Girl Groups

Lost Idols

The Booming Teen Market

Dick Clark and American Bandstand

Clark’s Creations

The Payola Investigation

Don Kirshner Takes Charge

The Sounds on the Streets

The Girl Groups

The Dream

Chapter 4. Surfboards and Hot Rods: California, Here We Come

Surfing U.S.A.

The Sound of the Surf

The Beach Boys

Jan and Dean

Drag City

Chapter 5. The New Frontier

Songs of Protest

The Folk Revival

Civil Rights in a New Frontier

Bob Dylan: The Music of Protest

Joan Baez

The Singer-Activists

Dylan’s Disenchantment

Folk Rock

Chapter 6. The British Invasion of America: The Beatles

The Mods, the Rockers, and the Skiffle Craze

The Early Beatles

Manager Brian Epstein

The Toppermost of the Poppermost

The Beatles Invade America

The Mersey Beat

The Monkees

Chapter 7. The British Blues Invasion and Garage Rock

British Blues and the Rolling Stones

The Stones Turn Raunchy

Success

The Who

The British Blues Onslaught

American Garage Rock

Chapter 6. Motown: The Sound of Integration

Motown: The Early Years

Civil Rights in the Great Society

The Sound of Integration

The Supremes on the Assembly Line

The Motown Stable

Chapter 9. Acid Rock

The Beats

The Reemergence of the Beats: The New York Connection

The Haight-Ashbury Scene

The Hippie Culture

Acid Rock: The Trip Begins

Rock-and-Roll Revolution

Psychedelic London

The Decline and Fall of Hippiedom

Chapter 10. Fire from the Streets

Black Pride

Soul Music

Funk

Black Soul in White America

Chapter 11. Guitar Heroes and Heavy Metal Gods

Campus Unrest

Guitar Rage of Metal Pioneers

Heavy Metal Thunder

Woodstock and the End of an Era

Chapter 12. Back to the Country

West Coast Country

Dylan and West Coast Country Rock

Southern Rock

Outlaw Country

Chapter 13. Escaping into the Seventies

Miles Ahead

Progressive Rock

Seventies Folk

Chapter 14. The Era of Excess

The “Me” Decade

Elton John

Heavy-Metal Theater

Art Pop in the Arena

Funk from Outer Space

Disco

Corporate Rock

Chapter 15. Punk Rock and the New Generation

New York Punk

The Sex Pistols and British Punk

The British Punk Legion

Rock Against Racism

The Jamaican Connection: Reggae and Ska

The Independent Labels

Right-Wing Reaction

The Decline of Punk

Postpunk Depression

The New Wave

Chapter 16. The American Hardcore

Chapter 17. I Want My MTV

MTV and the Video Age

The New Romantics

MTV Goes Electro-Pop

MTV and Michaelmania

The Jackson Legacy

Pop Goes the Metal

Chapter 18. The Promise of Rock-and-Roll

Trickling Down with Ronald Reagan

The Boss

The Benefits

Children of the Sixties

Classic Rock and the Compact Disc

Chapter 19. Country Boomers

The Country-Rock Rebirth

Garth Brooks

Chapter 20. Back to the Future: The Rave Revolution

House and Techno

A Rave New World

Chillin’ Out

The Dark Side of the Jungle

Chapter 21. The Generation X Blues

Thrash Metal

Death Metal and Grindcore

The Industrial Revolution

Grunge

Chapter 22. Post-Grunge Party

Britpop

Jam Bands

Chapter 23. The Hip-Hop Nation

The Old School

The Second Wave

Gangsta

Young, Gifted, and Black

New Jack Swing

The Return of Shaft

Chapter 24. Metal Gumbo: Rockin’ in the Twenty-First Century

Nu-Metal Pioneers

The Rap-Rock Explosion

Progressive Metal

Nu-Metal Anthems

Chapter 25. Age of the Internet

The Age of the Internet

The Download Mania

The Reinvention of the Music Industry

Chapter 26. Life in Wartime

Hot Times

Rock Against Bush

The Singer-Songwriters

Black Metal

Chapter 27. Country Counter-Revolution

The End of Hope

Tea Party

The Country Counter-Revolution

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