| Sect. I | | The 1950s | | |
| Ch. 1 | | Chuck Berry : in his own words | | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | | R&B : a danger to the music business? by Abel Green | | 15 |
| Ch. 3 | | Elvis Presley and "the craze" by John Crosby | | 17 |
| Ch. 4 | | "Elvis defends low-down style" by Kays Gary | | 19 |
| Ch. 5 | | "Experts propose study of craze" by Milton Bracker | | 21 |
| Ch. 6 | | The rock n roll audience : "but papa, its my music, I like it" by Jeff Greenfield | | 23 |
| Ch. 7 | | Leiber & Stoller by Ted Fox | | 29 |
| Ch. 8 | | The history of Chicano Rock by Ruben Guevara | | 37 |
| Sect. II | | The 1960s | | |
| Ch. 9 | | Phil Spector and the wall of sound by Ronnie Spector | | 45 |
| Ch. 10 | | The beatles, press conference, 1964 | | 53 |
| Ch. 11 | | "Beatlemania frightens child expert" by Bernard Saibel | | 55 |
| Ch. 12 | | George Martin : on the beatles | | 57 |
| Ch. 13 | | "Understanding dylan" by Paul Williams | | 63 |
| Ch. 14 | | Motown : a whiter shade of black by Jon Landau | | 69 |
| Ch. 15 | | "An interview with Wilson Pickett" by Jim Delehant | | 75 |
| Ch. 16 | | James Brown : soul brother no. 1 by Fred Wesley, Jr. | | 77 |
| Ch. 17 | | "Goodbye surfing hello God! - the religious conversion of Brian Wilson" by Jules Siegel | | 87 |
| Ch. 18 | | Rock and the counterculture by Chester Anderson | | 99 |
| Ch. 19 | | "The electric kool-aid acid test" by Tom Wolfe | | 103 |
| Ch. 20 | | "The country boom" by Barret Hansen | | 111 |
| Ch. 21 | | Woodstock nation by Joan K. Morrison and Robert K. Morrison | | 115 |
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