After the Ball(Limelight). An irreverent and engaging chronicle of popular music dating from the 1880s, when Tin Pan Alley was founded, to the present by a British-born songwriter and onetime pop star. "Brash, learned, funny, and perspicacious." The New Yorker |
Contents
How Pop Music Began | 3 |
Ragtime | 16 |
Inside Tin Pan Alley | 41 |
Alleymen versus the Allemands | 56 |
Introduction | 75 |
Jazz | 79 |
Records | 96 |
Radio | 108 |
Occupation | 161 |
Naturalization | 185 |
The Road to Rock | 197 |
Rock n Roll | 219 |
Meanwhile in Britain | 242 |
How I Became a Rock n Roll Star | 253 |
Thank You | 295 |
Acknowledgments | 299 |
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