B. Lee Cooper offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary
American society as it has been captured and transmitted in the
lyrics of more than 3,000 popular recordings. By tracing the
permutations of American popular music from the end of the Big
Band/Swing Era through the Age of Rock, the author presents a
thematically structured analysis of popular music lyrics from 1950
through 1985. Cooper divides his lucid commentaries and lists of
songs into fifteen sections, each dealing with a particular social,
political, or personal theme. In the brief essays that precede the
lengthy discographic sections, the author explores the ways in
which popular music has dealt with such issues as religion, death,
education, youth culture, transportation, mass media, protest,
military activity, women's liberation, and drug use and abuse. An
illustrative discography of 45 r.p.m. records follows each section
of commentary. An extensive bibliography of books, articles, and
special reports appears at the end of the volume, along with a
selected discography of album-length recordings which supplements
the extensive 45 r.p.m. listings.
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