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    Rockin' Out Popular Music in the U.S.A.

    Sixth edition

    Chapter I
    Introduction:
    Definitions, Themes,
    and Issues

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    Modules
    • Introduction: Definitions, Themes, and Issues
    • I.1: Popular Music and Mass Culture
    • I.2: The Birth of a New Era
    • I.3: Marketing and the Politics of Race, Language, and
    Gender
    • I.4: Regulating Popular Music

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    Learning Objectives
    •
    I.1: Popular Music and Mass Culture
    •
    I.2: The Birth of a New Era
    •
    I.3: Marketing and the Politics of Race, Language, and
    Gender
    •
    I.4: Regulating Popular Music

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    Introduction: Definitions, Themes, and
    Issues
    • Qualitative and quantitative indicators of popular music
    • Viewing popular music through the lens of race and racism
    • Important factors that shaped popular music

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    I.1: Popular Music and Mass Culture
    Objective: Distinguish between popular culture and mass culture in the cultural lexicon of
    the mid-twentieth century

    • I.1.1: Technology Makes Mass Culture Possible


    – New mass communication technologies
    – Mass culture

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    I.2: The Birth of a New Era (1 of 2)
    Objective: Assess the qualities of rock and roll that made it the most popular form of mass
    culture

    • I.2.1: New Technologies, New Sounds


    – Uniqueness of rock ‘n’ roll
    – Evolution of electric guitar
    – Sound recording
    – Technical features of rock ‘n’ roll
    • I.2.2: Going Against the Musical Grain
    – Unique characteristics of rock ‘n’ roll
    – Emergence of key forms of music

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    I.2: The Birth of a New Era (2 of 2)
    Objective: Assess the qualities of rock and roll that made it the most popular form of mass
    culture

    • I.2.3: Rock 'n' Roll Hybridity


    – Elvis Presley
    – Chuck Berry

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    I.3: Marketing and the Politics of Race,
    Language, and Gender (1 of 2)
    Objective: Evaluate the racial, language, and gender barriers that limited the development
    of musicians who were not white men

    • I.3.1: Crossing Over


    – Crossover
    – Terms used by Billboard to categorize African American
    music
    • I.3.2: Racial Categories and Musical Classification
    – Syd Nathan
    – Leonard Chess
    – Rockabilly

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    I.3: Marketing and the Politics of Race,
    Language, and Gender (2 of 2)
    Objective: Evaluate the racial, language, and gender barriers that limited the development
    of musicians who were not white men
    • I.3.3: No Hablamos Español: The Language
    Barrier
    – Latin music
    – Popular Spanish hits in the United States
    • I.3.4: The Long, Hard Climb: Gender
    Discrimination
    – Portrayal of women in popular songs
    – Harsh realities faced by women performers
    – Popular female vocalists
    – Female dance music artists
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    I.4: Regulating Popular Music
    Objective: Analyze how popular music has become the ideological battlefield on which
    struggles for power, values, and identities take place

    – Scenario in second half of 20th century


    – 1980s and 1990s
    – Post 9/11

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