Contents
- PART I: THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES
- 1. "The First Song"
- Native American Music
- 2. European Inroads
- Early Christian Music Making
- 3. From Ritual to Art
- The Flowering of Sacred Music
- 4. "Old, Simple Ditties"
- Colonial Song, Dance, and Home Music Making
- 5. Performing "By Particular Desire"
- Colonial Military, Concert, and Theater Music
- 6. Maintaining Oral Traditions
- African Music in Early America
- 7. Correcting "The Harshness of Our Singing"
- New England Psalmody Reformed
- PART II: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- 8. Edification and Economics
- The Career of Lowell Mason
- 9. Singing Praises
- Southern and Frontier Devotional Music
- 10. "Be It Ever So Humble"
- Theater and Opera, 1800–1860
- 11. Blacks, Whites, and the Minstrel Stage
- 12. Home Music Making and the Publishing Industry
- 13. From Jeanie to Dixie
- Parlor Songs, 1800–1865
- 14. Of Yankee Doodle and Ophicleides
- Bands and Orchestras, 1800 to the 1870s
- 15. From Church to Concert Hall
- The Rise of Classical Music
- 16. From Log House to Opera House
- Anthony Philip Heinrich and William Henry Fry
- 17. A New Orleans Original
- Gottschalk of Louisiana
- 18. Two Classic Bostonians
- George W. Chadwick and Amy Beach
- 19. Edward MacDowell and Musical Nationalism
- 20. "Travel in the Winds"
- Indian Music from 1820
- 21. "Make a Noise!"
- Slave Songs and Other Black Music to the 1880s
- 22. Songs of the Later Nineteenth Century
- 23. Stars, Stripes, and Cylinders
- Sousa and the Phonograph
- 24. "After the Ball"
- The Rise of Tin Pan Alley
- PART III: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- 25. "To Stretch Our Ears"
- The Music of Charles Ives
- 26. Come on and Hear
- The Early Twentieth Century
- 27. Blues, Jazz, and a Rhapsody
- The Jazz Age Dawns
- 28. "The Birthright of All of Us"
- Popular Music, Mass Media, and the Depression
- 29. "All that Is Native and Fine"
- American Folk Song and Its Collectors
- 30. From New Orleans to Chicago
- Jazz Goes National
- 31. "Crescendo in Blue"
- Ellington, Basie, and the Swing Band
- 32. The Golden Age of the American Musical
- 33. Classical Music in the Postwar Years
- 34. "Rock around the Clock"
- The Rise of Rock and Roll
- 35. Songs of Loneliness and Praise
- Postwar Popular Trends
- 36. Jazz, Broadway, and Musical Permanence
- 37. Melting Pot or Pluralism?
- Popular Music and Ethnicity
- 38. The Beatles, Rock, and Popular Music
- 39. Trouble Girls, Minimalists, and the Gap
- The 1960s to the 1980s
- 40. Black Music and American Identity
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