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Watkins, S. Craig, 334
Watson, Alex, 315
Watson, John F., xv, xx
WDIA (radio station), 101–102, 105
Weavers, 122
“We Can’t Stop” (Cyrus), xxi, 346
Weir, Bob, 165
Wells, Mary, 160
“We’re an American Band” (Grand Funk Railroad), 212
Werner, Craig, 88
West, Kanye, 26, 331
West, Mae, 52
Westwood, Vivienne, 260
Wetherington, Jim “Big Chief,” 107
Weymouth, Tina, 261
WHBQ (radio station), 101–103
“When You Were Mine” (Prince), 275
“Where Did Our Love Go?” (Supremes), 161
“Where the River Shannon Flows” (Mills), 70
Whispering Syncopators, 79
Whitaker, Hudson “Tampa Red,” 79
Whitaker, Jae, 186, 191
White, Barry, 207, 235, 241
White, Charles, 128–130
White, Emily, 295
White, George, 54
“Who Do You Love?” (Diddley), 149
“Whole Lotta Love” (Led Zeppelin), 211
“Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” (Teenagers), 119–120
Wicker, Genie (Dettelbach), 141–142
Wickham, Vicki, 227
Wilkerson, Isabel, 96
Williams, Ethel, 61
Williams, Linda, 206
Williams, Marion, 85, 86, 88, 89
Williams, Nat D., 101
Williams, Pharrell, 323, 337–341
Williamson, Barbara, 240
Williamson, Cris, 235
Williamson, John, 240
Willis, Ellen, 168, 182, 184, 186, 226
Willy and Ruth, 109
“Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (King, Goffin), 157–158
“Wimoweh” (Weavers), 122
Winnicott, D. W., 116
Wishbone Ash, 213
WMPS (radio station), 105
Wolcott, James, 258
Wolfe, Bernard, 193
Wolfe, Tom, 180, 220, 221
Wolff, Daniel, 94
“Women and the Fear of AIDS” (Jong), 270
Wondaland Arts Society, 310
Woodstock Festival (1969), 178
Woodward’s Big Four, 94
“Wop” (J. Dash), 36
“Words of Love” (Holly), 133
“Work, Bitch” (Spears), 312
World’s Fair (Chicago; 1893), 43
World War II
early marriage and, 120
“teenagers” phenomena and, 113
World Wide Web, inception of, 300
Wortham, Jenna, 322
Wright, Eric “Eazy-E,” 290
Wright, O. V., 99
Wyman, Bill, 213
Y
Yahoo, 321
Ying Yang Twins, xix–xx
“You Made Me Love You” (Jolson), 65–66
“You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” (Sylvester), 242–243
Young & the Digital, The (Watkins), 334
YouTube, 273, 314, 317, 338
“You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio” (Mitchell), 234
“You’ve Never Been This Far Before” (Twitty), 235
Z
“Z’amours Marianne” (Creole song), 23
Zappa, Frank, 217
Ziegfeld, Florenz, Jr., 49, 62–63
Ziggy Stardust (Bowie), 200
Zimmerman, Nadya, 191
Zipper (magazine), 212
zydeco, 18
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANN POWERS is NPR Music’s critic and correspondent and one of the nation’s leading music writers. She began her career at San Francisco Weekly, and has held positions at the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, Blender, and the Experience Music Project. Her previous books include Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America; Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, which she cowrote with Amos; and Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Rap, and Pop, which she coedited with Evelyn McDonnell. She was also the editor of Best Music Writing 2010. She lives in Nashville.
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ALSO BY ANN POWERS
Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America
Tori Amos: Piece by Piece
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Cover illustration by Jessi Zazu
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Portions of this book in different forms have appeared on The Record blog at NPR Music and in the great, now-defunct journal Black Clock.
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