Preface
1.1. Background: The 20th Century
1.2. Rock’n’Roll 1951-57
1.3. Before the Flood 1957-62
1.3.1 Pop restoration
1.3.2 Dance crazes
1.3.3 Instrumental rock
1.3.4 Exotica
1.3.5 Doo wop
1.3.6 Prodromes of the flood
1.3.7 Surf music
1.4. Trouble in Paradise 1961-64
1.5. The Flood 1964-65
1.6. Paradise Reborn 1963-65
1.7. The Counterculture 1965-66
1.7.1 The Greenwich Movement
1.7.2 Progressive folk
1.7.3 Folk-rock
1.7.4 Acid folk
1.7.5 The Los Angeles freaks
2. The Golden Age
2.1 Psychedelia 1965-68
2.1.1 San Francisco and the hippies
2.1.2 New York and the new Bohème
2.1.3 Los Angeles and acid-pop
2.1.4 Texas and the freak-out
2.1.5 The spreading of the disease
2.1.6 Britain and the light show
2.2. The age of the revivals 1966-69
2.2.1 Blues revival
2.2.2 Folk revival
2.2.3 Neo-classical revival
2.2.4 The revival of all revivals
2.2.5 American re-alignment
2.2.6 Soul explorations
2.2.7 New Orleans gumbo
2.3. Solo careers 1967-69
2.3.1 Los Angeles eccentrics 1968-69
2.3.2 Post-Greenwich 1967-71
2.3.3 Canada 1968-69
2.3.4 Texas 1967-69
2.3.5 Britain 1967-69
2.4. Electronics and rock 1968-70
2.5. Progressive-rock 1968-72
2.5.1 --
2.5.2 The founding fathers
2.5.3 Gothic, ethnic and folk variations
2.5.4 The second generation
2.5.5 Continental Europe
2.5.6 France
2.5.7 USA
2.6. Canterbury 1968-73
2.7. Kosmische Musik 1969-72
2.7.1 --
2.7.2 The early masters
2.7.3 The cosmic couriers
2.7.4 The soundtrack of industrial neurosis
2.7.5 Spiritual music
2.7.6 Prog-rock tedesco
2.7.7 Meet the avantgarde
2.8. Hard-rock 1969-73
2.8.1 --
2.8.2 Detroit
2.8.3 From blues to hard-rock
2.8.4 Southern waltz
2.9. The Avantgarde
2.9.1 Minimalism 1961-70
2.9.2 Live electronic music 1963-70
3. The Seventies
3.1. Psychedelic madness 1970-74
3.1.1 --
3.1.2 Japanese space-rock 1970-73
3.2. Re-alignment 1970-74
3.2.1 --
3.2.2 Country-rock 1970-72
3.2.3 Celtic revival 1971-74
3.2.4 Soul 1970-72
3.2.5 Reggae 1967-73
3.2.6 Roots-rock 1971-73
3.2.7 Progressive bluegrass 1971-75
3.2.8 Nostalgia 1972-76
3.2.9 Power-pop 1972-73
3.3. Singer songwriters 1970-74
3.3.1 The New York archetype 1970-72
3.3.2 L.A. Renewal 1970-72
3.3.3 Eccentrics 1970-1976
3.3.4 Britain 1970-72
3.3.5 Realism 1973-74
3.3.6 Italy
3.4. Decadence 1969-76
3.4.1 --
3.4.2 Decadence-rock 1969-75
3.4.3 Heavy metal 1972-76
3.5. Sound 1973-78
3.5.1 Borderline 1974-78
3.5.2 Techno-rock 1973-76
3.5.3 The value of production 1973-78
3.5.4 Prog-rock 1974-80
3.5.5 Supergroups 1975-80
3.6. The auteurs 1975-82
3.6.1 Female creativity 1975-79
3.6.2 Texas 1975-80
3.6.3 Populism 1976-82
3.6.4 Bridging the gap 1977
3.7. Disco-music 1975-80
3.7.1 Funk 1974-78
3.7.2 Disco-music 1974-78
3.7.3 The kings of pop 1975-79
3.8. The avantgarde 1976-80
3.8.1 Minimalism 1975-80
3.8.2 The voice
4. Punk and New Wave
4.1. USA: The New Wave
4.1.1 New York's new Boheme
4.1.2 No wave
4.2. UK: Punk-rock
4.2.1 London's burning
4.2.2 Australia
4.2.3 Art-punk
4.2.4 Funk-punk fusion
4.2.5 Punk never dies
4.2.6 Anarchists
4.3. USA: The Blank Generation
4.3.1 Akron 1976-80
4.3.2 California 1974-81
4.3.3 Manhattan 1977-
4.3.4 Etc 1977-80
4.4. USA: American Graffiti
4.4.1 New York
4.4.2 Garage-rock
4.4.3 Power-pop
4.4.4 California 1976-
4.4.5 Blues during the new vawe
4.5. UK: British Graffiti
4.5.1 Pub-rock 1976-79
4.5.2 Ska and reggae 1977-79
4.5.3 Modernism 1976-80
4.6. USA: Dance music for punks
4.7. UK & USA: Gothic rock
4.7.1 Dark-punk 1978-82
4.7.2 Gothic 1984-86
4.7.3 Gothic hardcore 1980-86
4.8. UK, Australia, Europe, Japan, USA: Industrial Music
4.8.1 Sheffield 1977-80
4.8.2 Diversification 1979-85
4.8.3 Australia 1980-82
4.8.4 Electronic Body Music 1980-84
4.8.5 German experimental music 1981-84
4.8.6 Japanese noise-core
4.8.7 USA
4.9. USA & Europe: Hardcore
4.9.1 New York's scum 1977-81
4.9.2 Punk-metal 1983-85
4.9.3 Washington's art-punk 1980-85
4.9.4 San Francisco 1977-84
4.9.5 Beach punks 1979-82
4.9.6 Jazz-core 1981-86
4.9.7 Midwest 1980-86
4.9.8 Chicago 1983-85
4.9.9 Europunks 1983-85
4.10. USA: College-pop
4.10.1 Athens 1981-86
4.10.2 North Carolina 1981-84
4.10.3 Hoboken 1981-83
4.10.4 The birth of lo-fi pop 1982-84
4.10.5 The golden age of college-pop 1982-87
4.10.6 Boston 1983-88
4.10.7 West-Coast 1981-88
4.10.8 Satire, 1988-89
4.11. UK & Australia: The New Wave of Pop and Synth-pop
4.11.1 Synth-pop 1979-84
4.11.2 New romantics 1981-83
4.11.3 The prodromes of Lo-fi Pop 1980-83
4.11.4 Pop revival 1981-84
4.11.5 Scotland and Ireland 1979-86
4.11.6 England 1979-88
4.11.7 International pop 1981-88
4.11.8 Australia and New Zealand 1978-86
4.12. USA, UK & Japan: Neo-progressive
4.12.1 New York's progressive-rock 1981-85
4.12.2 Washington and Richmond's progressive-rock 1977-84
4.12.3 Boston's progressive-rock 1977-86
4.12.4 Western progressive-rock 1982-86
4.12.5 International progressive-rock 1983-87
4.12.6 British sound painters, 1980-83
4.13. USA :Minimal-rock
4.13.1 Minimal-rock 1980-83
4.14. USA, Australia & UK: Psychedelic Revival
4.14.1 Paisley Underground 1982-87
4.14.2 Imitation, 1983-88
4.14.3 Raw sounds 1986-88
4.14.4 Desert psychedelia 1982-88
4.14.5 Free-form psychedelia 1982-88
4.14.6 Australian psychedelia 1981-86
4.14.7 Euro-garage 1980-86
4.14.8 Euro-psychedelia 1980-86
4.14.9 Prodromes of dance-psychedelia 1982-85
4.14.10 Dream-pop 1982-87
4.14.11 Feedback-pop 1985-87
4.14.12 Shoegazing 1986-87
4.15. USA, UK, Europe: The Golden Age of Heavy Metal
4.15.1 The pioneers 1976-78
4.15.2 Black metal 1982-85
4.15.3 Pop-metal 1981-85
4.15.4 Pomp and doom 1982-85
4.15.5 Speed-metal 1983-85
4.15.6 Grindcore 1986-88
4.15.7 Death-metal 1987-89
4.15.8 Progressive-metal 1986-89
4.15.9 Street sound, 1987
4.15.10 Funk-metal 1984-86
4.15.11 Grunge 1985-86
4.16. USA & UK: Songwriters of the 1980s
4.16.1 Female folksingers 1985-88
4.16.2 Canada 1980-88
4.16.3 Eccentrics 1982-86
4.16.4 California 1985-88
4.16.5 Popsingers 1982-86
4.16.6 Britain 1981-88
4.16.7 Celtic pop, 1985-87
4.16.8 Turning decade, 1988-89
4.17. USA: Roots-rock of the 1980s
4.17.1 Cow-punk 1984-86
4.17.2 Populism 1984-86
4.17.3 West Coast roots-rock 1985-86
4.17.4 Texas roots-rock 1986-89
4.17.5 Great Lakes roots-rock 1986-89
4.17.6 Alt-country 1988-89
4.17.7 Nashville, 1982-89
4.17.8 Instrumental roots, 1985-88
4.18. USA & UK: DJs, rappers, ravers
4.18.1 --
4.18.2 Rap-music 1979-87
4.18.3 Techno 1984-88
4.18.4 House
4.18.5 Industrial dance
4.18.6 Madchester
4.19. USA, Europe, Japan: the New Age
4.19.1 New-age music 1976-89
4.19.2 Solo acoustic music
4.19.3 Acoustic ensembles
4.19.4 Electronic music
4.19.5 World-music
4.19.6 German electronic music
4.20. USA: Space-pop
4.20.1 Space-pop 1986-88
4.21. USA & Australia: Extreme hardcore
4.21.1 Great Lakes 1984-89
4.21.2 Australia 1985-87
4.22. USA, Europe, Britain: Industrial-metal
4.22.1 Industrial-metal
4.22.2 Post-industrial music
4.22.3 Apocalyptic Folk
4.23. USA, Britain, Japan: Punk crossovers
4.23.1 New York 1986-89
4.23.2 Washington 1986-88
4.23.3 San Francisco 1985-89
4.23.4 Los Angeles 1986-87
4.23.5 Pop-core 1986-89
4.23.6 Rogue folk 1985-86
4.24. USA: From noise-rock to post-rock
4.24.1 New York's noise-rock 1986-88
4.24.2 Boston's noise-pop 1985-87
4.24.3 The South's art-punk 1985-87
4.24.4 San Francisco 1984-88
4.24.5 Dream-pop 1987-89
4.24.6 Louisville's post-rock 1989