Abstract
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.
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