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Part One: The First Three Centuries; 1. The First Song: Native AmericanMusic; 2. European Inroads: Early Christian Music Making; 3. FromRitual to Art: The Flowering of Sacred Music; 4. 'Old, Simple Ditties':Colonial Song, Dance, and Home Music Making; 5. Performing 'ByParticular 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 PsalmodyReformed; Part Two: The Nineteenth Century; 8. Edification andEconomics: The Career of Lowell Mason; 9. Singing Praises: Southern andFrontier Devotional Music; 10. 'Be It Ever So Humble': Theatre andOpera, 1800-1860; 11. Blacks, Whites, and the Minstrel Stage; 12. HomeMusic Making and the Publishing Industry; 13. From Ramparts to Romance:Parlour Songs, 1800-1845; 14. Of Yankee Doodle and Ophicleides: Bandsand Orchestras, 1800 to the 1870s; 15. From Church to Concert Hall: TheRise of Classical Music; 16. From Log House to Opera House: AnthonyPhilip Heinrich and William Henry Fry; 17. A New Orleans Original:Gottschalk of Louisiana; 18. Two Classic Bostonians: George W. Chadwickand Amy Beach; 19. Edward MacDowell and Musical Nationalism; 20.'Travel in the Winds': Native American Music from 1820; 21. 'Make aNoise!': Slave Songs and Other Black Music to the 1880s; 22. Songs ofthe Later Nineteenth Century; 23. Stars, Stripes, and Cylinders: Sousa,the Band, and the Phonograph; 24. 'After the Ball': The Rise of Tin PanAlley; Part Three: The Twentieth Century; 25. 'To Stretch Our Ears':The Music of Charles Ives; 26. 'Come On and Hear': The Early TwentiethCentury; 27. The Jazz Age Dawns: Blues, Jazz and a Rhapsody; 28. 'TheBirthright of All of Us': Classical Music, the Mass Media, and theDepression; 29. 'All That is Native and Fine': American Folk Song andIts Collectors; 30. From New Orleans to Chicago: Jazz Goes National;31. 'Crescendo in Blue': Ellington, Basie, and the Swing Band; 32. TheGolden Age of the American Musical; 33. Classical Music in the PostwarYears; 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? PopularMusic and Ethnicity; 38. From Accessibility to Transcendence: TheBeatles, Rock, and Popular Music; 39. Trouble Girls, Minimalists, andThe Gap: The 1960s to the 1980s; 40. Black Music and American Identity