A History of American Music 1750-1950: An Origin Story

Section 1 The Roots of American Music
Chapter 1 Native American Music
Chapter 2 African and African American Influence
Chapter 3 European Influence and American Hymnology
Chapter 4 Songs of the American Revolution
Chapter 5 Minstrel Shows and Parlor Songs
Chapter 6 Civil War Music
Chapter 7 The American Military March Tradition

Section 2 American Concert Music
Chapter 8 Early American Concert Music (1750–1820)
Chapter 9 Late Romantic and Early Twentieth-Century American Classical Composition: 1880–1920
Chapter 10 The Rise of American Nationalism in Concert Music (1920–1950)
Chapter 11 Twentieth-Century American Experimentalism

Section 3 Broadway, the Blues, and Black Gospel Music
Chapter 12 Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and the Great American Songbook
Chapter 13 Country Blues
Chapter 14 City Blues
Chapter 15 African American Praise and Gospel Music

Section 4 Ragtime, Stride, Boogie-Woogie and Early Jazz
Chapter 16 Piano Music: Ragtime, Stride Piano, and Boogie-Woogie
Chapter 17 Pre Jazz and the African American Composer
Chapter 18 Early Jazz and Dixieland
Chapter 19 Jazz’s First Great Virtuosos

Section 5 Swing, Bop, Cool Jazz, and Jump Blues
Chapter 20 Swing Music and the Swing Era (1933–1945)
Chapter 21 Other Key Swing Bands
Chapter 22 The Great Swing Soloists
Chapter 23 The Great Swing Vocalists
Chapter 24 Bebop
Chapter 25 Other Key Bebop Contributors
Chapter 26 Cool Jazz
Chapter 27 Jump Blues and Rhythm and Blues
Chapter 28 The Electric Guitar and Electric Blues

Section 6 American Country and Folk
Chapter 29 Old-time and Early Country Music (1900–1930)
Chapter 30 Country Music (1930–1950)
Chapter 31 Hybrid Country Forms Jug Bands, Western Swing and Bluegrass
Chapter 32 American Folk Music (1920–1950)

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