Music and the road: essays on the interplay of music and the popular culture of the American road

Chapter 1. Introduction / Gordon E. Slethaug -- Chapter 2. The semiotics of the road / Gordon E. Slethaug -- Chapter 3. Easy riders and hard roads in the early recorded blues / Steven Knepper and James Tuten -- Chapter 4. Easy street on mud tires: The "heartland" and the frontier of the road in country music / Virginia Shay -- Chapter 5. The tour bus and the road / Anaia Shaw -- Chapter 6. Band on the ruins: Meditations on music and motion / Warren Leming -- Chapter 7. "All that road going": Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, and The Beach Boys'Smile / Dale Carter -- Chapter 8. "Happiness is the road": Bob Dylan / Susan Kuyper -- Chapter 9. "Apology and forgiveness got no place here at all": On the road to Washington D.C. with Bruce Springsteen / Chad Wriglesworth -- Chapter 10. "But people are strangers": Lyric narratives and ethics on Paul Simon's roads / Alexander Hollenberg -- Chapter 11. Gender is over: Transgender narrative homecomings, punk music, and the road / Evelyn Deshane --Chapter 12. Knowing the score: Road movie soundtracks and cinematic verities / Kurt Jacobsen -- Chapter 13. Conclusion: "The miracle of serendipity" / Gordon E. Slethaug -- Works cited -- Index.

"Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Chapter 1 Introduction" -- "Scholarship of music and the road" -- "The theoretical and narrative framework of this study" -- "Chapter 2 The semiotics of the road" -- "Mobility and the early American road" -- "Mobility, identity, space, and the nineteenth-century road" -- "Geography and race: The changing twentieth-century road" -- "Modernity and automobility in the 1950s and 1960s" -- "Mixing it up: Social rebellion, media and music, gender, race, and the road following the '60s" -- "The intrusion of the postmodern into the road at the turn of the century" -- "Chapter 3 Easy riders and hard roads in the early recorded blues" -- "Biographies" -- "Traveling the road" -- "Empowerment" -- "Anxiety" -- "A legacy of ambivalence" -- "Chapter 4 Easy street on mud tires: The "heartland" and the frontier of the road in country music" -- "From the Frontier to the Road" -- "The South, the West, and the heartland" -- "Country music and the appropriation of the cowboy" -- "Free-enterprise cowboy: The trucker" -- "The Highway Don't Care: The comfort of the dirt road" -- "Chapter 5 The tour bus and the road" -- "Setting the stage—a focused history of the motorbus" -- "Getting on board—pop culture and the bus" -- "Getting from A to B—the short history of the tour bus" -- "Names changed, bus is the same—the tour bus in Almost Famous" -- "Foreign land, familiar features—The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" -- "The inside scoop—the musician on the tour bus" -- "Hotels on wheels—the "new" tour bus" -- "A fork in the road—dealing with differences and looking ahead" -- "Chapter 6 Band on the ruins: Meditations on music and motion" -- "Chicago roots—late '50s, early '60s" -- "The Wilderness road band tours—early 1970 and 1971

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Scholarship of music and the road -- The theoretical and narrative framework of this study -- Chapter 2 The semiotics of the road -- Mobility and the early American road -- Mobility, identity, space, and the nineteenth-century road -- Geography and race: The changing twentieth-century road -- Modernity and automobility in the 1950s and 1960s -- Mixing it up: Social rebellion, media and music, gender, race, and the road following the.