Music in the USA: a documentary companion

1540-1770. 1. Early encounters between indigenous peoples and European explorers / (Castañeda, Drake, de Meras, Smith, Wood)

2. From the Preface to the first edition of the Bay psalm book

3. Four translations of Psalm 100 / (Tehilim, Bay Psalm Book, 1640 and 1698, Watts)

4. From the diaries of Samuel Sewall

5. The ministers rally for musical literacy / (Mather, Walter, Symmes)

6. Benjamin Franklin advises his brother on how to write a ballad and how not to write like Handel

7. Social music for the elite in colonial Williamsburg

8. Advertisements and notices from colonial newspapers.

1770-1830. 9. "Christopher Crotchet, singing master from Quavertown"

10. Singing the revolution / (Adams, Dickinson, Greeley)

11. Elisha Bostwick hears a Scots prisoner sing "Gypsie Laddie"

12. A sidebar into ballad scholarship : the wanderings of "The gypsy laddie" / (Child, Sharp, Coffin, Bronson)

13. William Billings and the new sacred music / (Billings, Gould)

14. Daniel Read on pirating and "scientific music"

15. Turn-of-the-century theater songs from Reinagle, Rowson, and Carr : "America, commerce, and freedom" and "The little sailor boy"

16. Padre Narciso Durán describes musical training at the Mission San Jose

17. Moravian musical life at Bethlehem / (Henry, Till, Bowne)

18. Reverend Burkitt brings camp meeting hymns from Kentucky to North Carolina in 1803

19. John Fanning Watson and errors in Methodist worship

19. Reverend James B. Finley and Mononcue sing "Come thou fount of every blessing".

1830-1880. 21. Thomas D. Rice acts out Jim Crow and Cuff

22. William M. Whitlock, banjo player for the Virginia Minstrels

23. Edwin P. Christy, Stephen Foster, and "Ethiopian minstrelsy"

24. Stephen Foster's legacy / (Foster, Gordon, Robb, Simpson, Willis, Galli-Curci, Ellington, Charles)

25. The Fasola folk, The southern harmony, and The sacred harp / (Walker, White, King)

26. A sidebar into the discovery of shape-note music by a national audience / (Jackson, The sacred harp, 1991)

27. The Boston public schools set a national precedent in music education

28. Lorenzo Da Ponte recruits an Italian opera company for New York

29. Music education for American girls

30. Early expressions of cultural nationalism / (Hopkins, Fry, Putnam's Monthly)

31. John S. Dwight remembers how he and his circle "were but babes in music"

32. George Templeton Strong hears the American premiere of Beethoven's Fifth

33. German Americans adapting and contributing to musical life

34. Emil Klauprecht's German-American novel, Cincinnati, oder, Die Geheimnisse des Westens

35. P.T. Barnum and the Jenny Lind fever

36. Miska Hauser, Hungarian violinist, pans for musical gold

37. From the journals of Louis Moreau Gottschalk

38. The 'four-part blend' of the Hutchinson Family

39. Walt Whitman's conversion to opera

40. Clara Kellogg and the memoirs of an American prima donna

41. Frederick Douglass from My bondage and my freedom

42. Harriet Beecher Stowe and two scenes from Uncle Tom's cabin

43. From Slave songs of the United States (1867)

44. A sidebar into memory : slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project in the new deal

45. George F. Root recalls how he wrote a classic union song

46. A confederate girl's diary during the Civil War

47. Soldier-musicians from the North and the South recall duties on the front

48. Ella Sheppard Moore, a Fisk Jubilee Singer

- 49. Patrick S. Gilmore and the golden age of bands / (Newspaper review, Herbert)

50. Theodore Thomas and his musical manifest destiny / (Rose Fay Thomas, Theodore Thomas).

1880-1920. 51. John Philip Sousa : excerpts from his Autobiography

52. Why is a good march like a marble statue? / (Pryor, Fennell)

3. Willa Cather mourns the passing of the small-town opera house

54. Henry Lee Higginson and the founding of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

55. American classical music goes to the Paris World's Fair of 1889

56. George Chadwick's ideals for composing classical concert music

57. Late 19th-century cultural nationalism : the paradigm of Dvořák / (Creelman, Paine, Burleigh)

58. Henry Krehbiel explains a critic's craft and a listener's duty

59. Amy Fay tackles the "woman question"

60. Amy Beach, composer, on "Why I chose my profession"

61. Edward MacDowell, poet-musician, remembered / (Currier, Gilman)

62. Paul Rosenfeld's manifesto for American composers

63. From the writings of Charles Ives

64. Frederic Louis Ritter looks for the "people's song"

65. Frances Densmore and the documentation of American Indian songs and poetry

66. A sidebar into national cultural policy : the Federal Cylinder Project

67. Charles K. Harris on writing hits for Tin Pan Alley

68. Scott Joplin, ragtime visionary / (Scott Joplin, Lottie Joplin)

69. A sidebar into the ragtime revival of the 1970s : William Bolcom reviews The collected works of Scott Joplin

70. James Reese Europe on the origin of "modern dances"

71. Irving Berlin on "love-interest as a commodity" in popular songs

72. Caroline Caffin on the "music and near-music" of Vaudeville

73. Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton describes New Orleans and the discipline of jazz.

1920-1950. 74. Bessie Smith, artist and blues singer / (press notice, Bailey, Schuller)

75. Thomas Andrew Dorsey "Brings the people up" and carries himself along

76. Louis Armstrong in his own words

77. Gilbert Seldes waves the flag of pop

78. Al Jolson and The jazz singer

79. Carl Stalling : master of cartoon music : an interview

80. A sidebar into postmodernism: John Zorn Turns Carl Stalling into a Prophet

81. Alec Wilder writes lovingly about Jerome Kern

82. George Gershwin explains that "Jazz is the voice of the American soul"

83. William Grant Still, pioneering African American composer / (Still, Locke, Still)

84. The inimitable Henry Cowell as described by the irrepressible Nicolas Slonimsky

85. Ruth Crawford and her "astonishing juxtapositions"

86. "River Sirens, Lion Roars, all music to Varèse" : an interview in Santa Fe

87. Leopold Stokowski and "debatable music"

88. Henry Leland Clark on the Composers Collective

89. Marc Blitzstein in and out of the treetops of The cradle will rock

90. Samuel Barber and the controversy around the premiere of Adagio for strings / (Downes, Pettis, Menotti, Harris)

91. Virgil Thomson, composer and critic

92. Arthur Berger divides Aaron Copland into two styles and Copland puts himself back together again

93. Aaron Copland on the "personality of Stravinsky"

94. The American period of Arnold Schoenberg / (Sessions, Newlin)

95. Uncle Dave Macon, banjo trickster at the Grand Ole Opry

96. The Bristol sessions and country music

97. A sidebar into the folk revival : Harry Smith's canon of old-time recordings

98. Zora Neale Hurston on "spirituals and neo-spirituals"

99. The hard times of Emma Dusenbury, source singer

100. John and Alan Lomax propose a "Canon for American folk song"

101. Woody Guthrie praises the "spunkfire" attitude of a folk song

102. Fred Astaire dances like a twentieth-century American / (Williams)

103. The innovations of Oklahoma! / (de Mille, Engel)

104. Duke Ellington on swing as a way of life

105. Malcolm X recalls the years of swing

106. The many faces of Billie Holiday / (Holiday, Wilson, Bennett)

107. Ralph Ellison and the birth of bebop at Minton's.

1950-1975. 108. Ella Fitzgerald on stage / (Peterson)

109. Leonard Bernstein charts an epic role for musical theater

110. Stephen Sondheim on writing theater lyrics

111. Muddy Waters explains "why it doesn't pay to run from trouble"

112. Elvis Presley in the eye of musical twister / (newspaper reviews, Gould, Lewis)

113. Chuck Berry in his own words

114. The five string banjo : hints from the 1960s speed-master, Earl Scruggs

115. Pete Seeger, a TCUAPSS, Sings out!"

116. Bob Dylan turns liner notes into poetry

117. Janis Joplin grabs pieces of our hearts / (Joplin, Graham)

118. "Handcrafting the grooves" in the studio: Aretha Franklin at Muscle Shoals / (Wexler)

119. Jimi Hendrix, virtuoso of electricity / (Hendrix, Bloomfield)

120. Amiri Baraka theorizes a black nationalist aesthetic

121. Greil Marcus and the new rock criticism

122. Charles Reich on the music of "Consciousness III"

123. McCoy Tyner on "the jubilant experience of John Coltrane"s classic quartet

124. Miles Davis : excerpts from his autobiography

125. A Vietnam vet remembers rocking and rolling in the mud of war

126. George Crumb and Black angels : "A quartet in time of war"

127. Milton Babbitt on electronic music / (Babbitt, Brody and Miller)

128. Edward T. Cone satirizes music theory's new vocabulary

129. Mario Davidovsky, an introduction / (Chasalow)

130. Elliot Carter on the "different time worlds" in String quartets no. 1 and 2

131. John Cage, words and Music for changes / (Cage, Anderson)

132. Harold Schonberg on "art and bunk, matter and anti matter"

133. Pauline Oliveros, composer and teacher

134. Steve Reich on "music as a gradual process".

1975-2000. 135. Star Wars meets Wagner / (Dyer, Tomlinson)

136. Tom Johnson demonstrates what minimalism is all about

137. Morton Feldman and his West German fan base / (Feldman, Post)

138. Philip Glass and the roots of reform opera

139 Laurie Anderson does "stand-up" performance art / (Anderson, Gordon)

140. Meredith Monk and the revelation of voice

141. Recapturing the soul of the American orchestra / (Duffy, Tower)

142. Two economists measure the impact of blind auditions

143. John Harbison on modes of composing

144. Wynton Marsalis on learning from the past for the sake of the present

145. John Adams, an American master

146. The incorporation of the American Folklife Center

147. Daniel J. Boorstin's welcoming remarks at the Conference on Ethnic Recordings in America

148. Willie Colón on "conscious salsa"

149. The accordion travels through "roots music" / (Savoy)

150. Conjunto music

"a very beautiful accordiante flower / (Santiago Jiménez, Flaco Jiménez, Jordán)

151. Gloria Anzaldúa on Vistas y corridos : my native tongue

152. Contemporary Native American music and the Pine Ridge Reservation / (Porcupine Singers, Frazier)

153. MTV and the music video / (MoMA, Hoberman)

154. Turning points in the career of Michael Jackson / (Jackson, Jones)

155. Sally Banes explains why "breaking is hard to do"

156. Two members of public enemy discuss sampling and copyright law

157. DJ Qbert, master of turntable music

158. A press release from the Country Music Association

159. Ephemeral music : Napster's congressional testimony.