A History of American Music 1750-1950: An Origin Story
- Author: Sweet, Jay
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Contents
- 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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