Genres
Issues of mass meditation
Issues of gender
Musical agency.

Introduction / Mellonee V. Burnim and Portia K. Maultsby
Intellectual history / Portia K. Maultsby and Mellonee V. Burnim with contributions from Susan Oehler
pt. I: Genres. Secular folk music / Dena J. Epstein with contributions from Rosita M. Sands
Religious music / Mellonee V. Burnim
Blues : Chronological overview / David Evans ; The blues in transcultural contexts / Susan Oehler
Ragtime / Ingeborg Harer
Jazz : Chronological overview / Ingrid Monson ; Interpreting jazz / Travis A. Jackson
Musical theater / Thomas L Riis
Art/classical music : chronological overview / Josephine R.B. Wright ; Interpreting classical music / Olly Wilson
Rhythm and blues ; Soul ; Funk / Portia K. Maultsby
Disco and House / Kai Fikentscher
Techno / Beverly May
Hip-hop and rap / Dawn M. Norfleet
pt. II: Issues of mass mediation. The music industry : The popular music industry / Reebee Garofalo ; The gospel music industry / Mellonee V. Burnim
Profiles of record labels : Motown / Charles Sykes ; Stax / Rob Bowman ; Philadelphia International / John A. Jackson
pt. III: Issues of gender. Women in African American music : Gospel / Mellonee V. Burnim ; Blues / Daphne Duval Harrison ; Jazz / Sherrie Tucker ; Women-identified music / Eileen M. Hayes ; Rock / Maureen Mahon
pt. IV: Musical agency. African American music as resistance : Antebellum period / Lawrence W. Levine ; Civil rights movement / Bernice Johnson Reagon ; Post-civil rights period / Mark Anthony Neal
Glossary.