They work hard for their money: the business of popular music / David Sanjek -- Tin Pan Alley and the Black-Jewish nation / Jeffrey Melnick -- How I got to Memphis: the blues and the study of American culture / James Smethurst -- Listening to jazz / Geoffrey Jacques -- Sing me back home: nostalgia, Bakersfield, and modern Country music / Rachel Rubin -- Off the charts: outrage and exclusion in the eruption of rock and roll / Reebee Garofalo -- Another man is beating my time: gender and sexuality in rhythm and blues / Mark Anthony Neal -- One hundred years of Black Gospel quartet singing / Kip Lornell -- Contextualizing rap / Gail Hilson Woldu -- The folk revival: beyond Child's canon and Sharp's song catching / Millie Rahn -- Polka contrabandista: Mexican ballads in the modern age / Elijah Wald.