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American Popular Music
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The image that you see is vocalist, Stevie Wonder. This image can be
found at www.alwaysontherun.com


The music you hear is "Visions," performed by Stevie Wonder.
From the album "Stevie Wonder: Inner Visions."

 

 

 

What is this essay about?

The Term "Popular Music"
The Beginnings of Popular Music
The Broadside Ballad
The Music of the Colonists
Music For a New Nation
Religious Music
Minstrel Music
The Sentimental Parlor Song
The Narrative Song
Songs Of the Civil War
The Gay Nineties
Urban Irish Music
Tin Pan Alley
The Crooners
The Big Bands
The Music That Led to Rock and Roll
Rockabilly
The First Rock and Rollers
Rock and Roll As a Term
The Juvenilizing of Popular Music
Doo Wop and Girl Groups
A New Breed of Songwriter (Soft Rock and Smooth Jazz)
Protest Folk Music
The British Invasion
Soul
Motown
The Psychedelic Music of the Counter Culture
Disco
Rap, Hip Hop, Funk, Punk, and Techno Rock

 

 

 

 Who are some of the people
in this essay?

Nat King Cole
Ray Charles
George Gershwin
Frank Sinatra
Barbra Streisand
James Brown
Jerome Kern
Elvis Presley
Stephen Foster
Cole Porter
Al Jolson
Stephen Sondheim
Janis Joplin
Little Richard
William Billings
Richard Rodgers
John Philip Sousa
Bob Dylan
Bing Crosby
Irving Berlin
Chuck Berry
Michael Jackson
Carole King

 

 

 

What music is in this essay?

The Ballad of Jed Clampett
Chester
Simple Gifts
I Found the Answer
Old Folks At Home
Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair
Dixie
The Girl I Left Behind Me
America the Beautiful
Stars and Stripes Forever
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Mother Machree
Danny Boy
Charleston
Yankee Doodle Dandy
There's No Business Like Show Business
All The Things You Are
Night and Day
I Got Rhythm
The Lady Is a Tramp
Stardust
Georgia On My Mind
White Christmas
Sam's Song
New York, New York
Witchcraft
It Was A Very Good Year
Unforgettable
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
The Way We Were
In The Mood
Honky Tonk Train Blues
Hoochie Coochie Man
Heartbreak Hotel
Hound Dog
Wake Up Little Susie
Great Balls of Fire
Peggy Sue
Blue Suede Shoes
Rock Around the Clock
Long Tall Sally
Good Golly, Miss Molly
Johnny B. Goode
Tutti Frutti
Blueberry Hill
Why Do Fools Fall In Love?
The Great Pretender
Dedicated To the One I Love
Natural Woman
I Feel the Earth Move
Do You Know the Way To San Jose?
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Short People
Caroline
Everybody's Talkin'
Coconut
I got You, Babe
Grand Coulee Dam
This Land Is Your Land
The City of New Orleans
Tom Dooley
M.T.A.
Blowin' In the Wind
Mr. Tambourine Man
Mrs. Robinson
America
The 59th Street Bridge Song
Take Me Home, Country Roads
I'm Leaving On a Jet Plane
America the Beautiful
That Lucky Old Sun
Yesterday
Papa Don't Take No Mess
Where Did Our Love Go?
Stop In the Name of Love
What's Going On?
Midnight Train to Georgia
Visions
The Girl Is Mine
Ramble On Rose
Summertime
Me and Bobby McGee
Break On Through
Light My Fire
The Star Spangled Banner
Purple Haze
Underground Freak-Out Music
Bring the Noise
White America
Lady Marmalade
Soul On Ice
Trip Like I Do
The Streets of Philadelphia
The Seaside Bar Song
Do You Remember Rock 'n Roll Radio?

 

 

 

Off-line viewing of video tapes

Michael Jackson's "Thriller"

 

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