Contents
- Part One: 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 Theatre Music
- 6. Maintaining Oral Traditions: African Music in Early America
- 7. Correcting 'the Harshness of Our Singing': New England Psalmody Reformed
- Part Two: 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': Theatre and Opera, 1800-1860
- 11. Blacks, Whites, and the Minstrel Stage
- 12. Home Music Making and the Publishing Industry
- 13. From Ramparts to Romance: Parlour Songs, 1800-1845
- 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': Native American 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, the Band, and the Phonograph
- 24. 'After the Ball': The Rise of Tin Pan Alley
- Part Three: The Twentieth Century
- 25. 'To Stretch Our Ears': The Music of Charles Ives
- 26. 'Come On and Hear': The Early Twentieth Century
- 27. The Jazz Age Dawns: Blues, Jazz and a Rhapsody
- 28. 'The Birthright of All of Us': Classical Music, the 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 Vernacular Trends
- 36. Jazz, Broadway, and Musical Permanence
- 37. Melting Pot or Pluralism? Popular Music and Ethnicity
- 38. From Accessibility to Transcendence: The Beatles, Rock, and Popular Music
- 39. Trouble Girls, Minimalists, and The Gap: The 1960s to the 1980s
- 40. Black Music and American Identity