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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
Prologue
Chapter 1: 1900: Pop in the Beginning
Chapter 2: Elite Syncopations: Scott Joplin and Ragtime
Chapter 3: Songs for Sale: Tin Pan Alley
Chapter 4: Doing What Comes Naturally: Irving Berlin
Chapter 5: A Culture of Consolation: Music Hall and Musical Theatre
Chapter 6: On the Other Side of a Big Black Cloud: World War I
Chapter 7: A Conversation of Instruments: The Birth of Jazz
Chapter 8: The Greatest Love of All: Louis Armstrong
Chapter 9: The Blab of the Pave: Jerome Kern and Broadway
Chapter 10: Let Me Entertain You: Al Jolson
Chapter 11: I’m Gonna Do It If I Like It: The Jazz Age
Chapter 12: In a Silent Way: Race Records
Chapter 13: Invisible Airwaves Crackle with Life: Radio
Chapter 14: Trying Hard to Recreate What Had Yet to Be Created: Hillbilly
Chapter 15: Black and Tan Fantasy: Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club
Chapter 16: Learn to Croon: Rudy Vallee and the Dawn of the Electric Era
Chapter 17: All Hollywood and All Heaven: Talking Pictures
Chapter 18: Ten Cents a Dance: The Great Depression
Chapter 19: Nothing but Blue Skies: Bing Crosby
Chapter 20: Industrial Light and Magic: The Movie Musical
Chapter 21: Pardon My Pups: The Boswell Sisters
Chapter 22: Make Those People Sway: British Dance Bands
Chapter 23: Fascinating Rhythm: Fred Astaire and the Dance-Hall Boom
Chapter 24: Eighty-Eight Key Smiles: Fats Waller and Friends
Chapter 25: Tight Like That: The Age of Swing
Chapter 26: Serenade in Blue: The Great American Songbook
Chapter 27: The Winds Grow Colder: Judy Garland and Billie Holiday
Chapter 28: Be Like the Kettle and Sing: Britain at War
Chapter 29: Why Don’t You Do Right: America at War
Chapter 30: Hot Licks with Vanilla: Glenn Miller
Chapter 31: Someone to Watch Over Me: Vocal Refrains
Chapter 32: We Had to Break Up the Band: Post-War Jazz
Chapter 33: Call Me Irresponsible: Frank Sinatra
Chapter 34: Saturday Night Fish Fry: Rhythm and Blues
Chapter 35: California Suite: The Long-Player
Chapter 36: It’s Mitch Miller’s World and We Just Live in It: The
Chapter 37: Breaks a New Heart Every Day: Peggy Lee
Chapter 38: Almost Like Praying: Post-War Broadway
Chapter 39: Squeeze Me: Vocal Jazz
Chapter 40: Experiments with Mice: British Big Bands
Chapter 41: Revival: Trad Jazz and Folk
Chapter 42: In a Restless World: Nat King Cole
Chapter 43: Ports of Pleasure: Exotica
Chapter 44: Sharks in Jets Clothing: Rock ’n’ Roll
Chapter 45: The Summit: Frank, Dino and Sammy
Chapter 46: TV Is the Thing: The Rise of Television
Chapter 47: I Could Go on Singing: The Next Generation
Chapter 48: The Strength of Strings: Film Soundtracks
Chapter 49: What Kind of Fool Am I: Lionel Bart and Anthony Newley
Chapter 50: Whipped Cream and Other Delights: Adventures in Beatleland
Chapter 51: The Last Waltz: Tom Jones and the New Balladeers
Chapter 52: Some Kind of Rapprochement: The 1970s
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Sources
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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