For undergraduate courses in Rock and Roll Music History, Recent American History, American Sociology, and African-American History.   Rockin' in Time intrigues students by providing a social history of Rock and Roll music and explaining its influence.   Story:  This book was written to address an area that seldom has been discussed.  Rather than a compellation of the many bands in rock history or a guide to teach the musical notation of rock, this book uncovers the reasons for the various trends and types of rock and roll.  It places rock and roll in the context of the social issues that surround and shape it, dealing with the influence on rock music of such trends as technological advances, the development of the music business, demographic change and the baby boom, economic shifts, and the civil rights movement.   

Table of Contents:
Preface       Acknowledgments       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       Other Chess Discoveries       The Independent Sweepstakes       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  Dick Clark, Don Kirshner,                      and the Teen Market                                                 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                                        The New American Empire       Surfing U.S.A.       The Sound of the Surf       The Beach Boys       Jan and Dean       Drag City       Chapter 5  Bob Dylan and the New Frontier                              Songs of Protest       The Folk Revival       Civil Rights on 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 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 8  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                                                Soul Music       Black Soul in White America       Chapter 11  Militant Blues on Campus                                        Campus Unrest       The Psychedelic Blues       Heavy Metal Thunder       The Rebirth of the Blues       Woodstock and the End of an Era       Chapter 12  Soft Sounds of the Seventies                                   Miles Ahead       Sweet Seventies Soul       Classical Rock       Back to the Country       Seventies Folk       Chapter 13 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 14  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       Post-Punk Depression       The New Wave       Chapter 15 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 16 The Promise of Rock-and-Roll                                 The Boss       The Benefits       Children of the Sixties       Classic Rock and the Compact Disc       Country Boomers       Chapter 17 The Generation X Blues                                             The Hardcore Generation       Thrash Metal       The Industrial Revolution       Grunge       Chapter 18 The Rave Revolution                                                 House and Techno       A Rave New World       The Dark Side of the Jungle       Armchair Techno             Brit Pop Chapter 19 The Many Faces of Hip-Hop                                        The Old School       The Second Wave       Gangsta       Young, Gifted and Black       Techno Hop       Trip-Hop       The Return of Shaft       Hip-Hop Pop       Spice World       Chapter 20 Metal Gumbo: Rockin’ in the  21st Century             Nu-Metal Pioneers       The Rap-Rock Explosion       Nu-Metal Anthems       The Rock Industry in the Age of the Internet      CHAPTER 21 MUSIC, POLITICS AND ROCK AGAINST BUSH      Music, Politics and Social Activism      Celebrity Politics      Rock Against Bush Bibliography         Index