David Hajdu is the music critic for The Nation and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (1996), Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña (2001), The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America (2008), and Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture (2009). He lives in Manhattan.
1. The Sheet Music Era: The Zenith of the Popular Music Craze
2. The Rise of Records: Whispering
3. The Cotton Club: Jingle Nights in Harlem
4. The Charts: Make-Believe Island
5. Going West: Hollywood Barn Dance
6. Rock and Roll: They Went Ca-raaaaazy for it!
7. The Transistor: Mine Completely
8. Singers and Songwriters: Potty About Dylan
9. The Album: A Pair of Twenty-Minute Things
10. Punk Versus Disco: Who Needs Love?
11. Video: Moonwalkers
12. Hip-Hop: Beats Want to Be Free
13. Digitization: The Immaterial World
