| Show name | History of American Music |
| Show DJs | David Gowler,WMUA |
| Show info | History of American Music is an overview of, primarily, American Music starting just after 1900 and reaching the present day w/a core focus from 1919-1969. The show has a strong jazz and African-American music focus, touching on 'Field Recordings', Blues, Gospel, Religious and early R and B, but also surveying white popular and jazz and swing influenced music, primarily before 1950. Other ethnic and cultural recordings, esoteric recordings, instrumental recordings, vaudeville, dialect comedy and other recorded artifacts from the early years of recorded music also find their way into the show. The recordings themselves are primarily from original source material, primarily 78rpm discs, but also 33rpm discs and, also analog and digital transcriptions of original recordings. The show educates as it entertains and unfolds historic and social themes as related to the music. I try, each show, to, besides informing listeners of the specific dates of the recordings and the musical personnel featured, mention other related information of historical settings or background. However, the program is primarily music presented in a chronological format, which hopefully progresses in a way which leads the listener to their own conclusions. Though I put hours of thought and preparation into each show, with specific musical, and other intentions, it is mostly up to the listener to interpret what they hear. The show begins, proceeds and ends and hopefully, however much of the show a listener might hear on a given day, from part of one song to the whole show, they are enlightened in some way. Because of the historic and sometimes, rare nature of the recordings presented, it is most likely, that, despite the fact that these are older recordings, the listener will be hearing some, or perhaps, most of this music for the first time. Certainly, much of this music is very rarely heard on the airwaves, anywhere. |
| Show link | http://wmua.radioactivity.fm/show.html?showoid=6980 |
| Playlist RSS | http://wmua.radioactivity.fm/feeds/playlistrss.html?showoid=6980&date=01-05-2014 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:11 pm | Old Time Religion | Tuskegee Institute Singers | 18075 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:12 pm | Stand By Me | Madame Magdalene Tartt Lawrence | 12092 | Paramount | Jazz |
| 07:12 pm | Believe In Jesus | Norfolk Jubilee Quartet | 7533 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:16 pm | Golden Gate Gospel Train | Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet | B-7126 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 07:23 pm | It Is They Servant's Prayer | Elder Charles Beck | Test Pressing | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 07:24 pm | Stand By Me | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | 48010 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:28 pm | How Far From God | Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Sam Price Trio | 48030 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:33 pm | Cotton Blossom Blues | Lewis Bronzeville Five | B-8433 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 07:35 pm | I Can't Quit That Man | Ida Cox and Her All-Star Orch. | 6405 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:35 pm | Blues Blues | Streamline Mae | 06093 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:40 pm | Out of Nowhere | Teddy Wilson Orch. vcl. Lena Horne | 36737 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:48 pm | For The Good Of The Country | Count Basie Orch. vcl. Jimmy Rushing | 36685 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:48 pm | Lazy Lady Blues | Count Basie Orch. vcl. Jimmy Rushing | 36990 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:55 pm | River Hip Mama | Washboard Sam and His Washboard Band | B-9039 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 07:58 pm | I Got To Have It Daddy | Yas Yas Girl and Her Jazz Boys | 37685 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:59 pm | Let Your Tears Fall Baby | Willie Mae Thornton | 1587 | Peacock | Jazz |
| 08:09 pm | A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing | Duke Ellington Orch. | Duke Ellington-Unknown Session | Columbia LP | Jazz |
| 08:11 pm | Mighty Like The Blues | Duke Ellington Orch. | Duke Ellington-Unknown Session | Columbia LP | Jazz |
| 08:12 pm | Tonight I Shall Sleep | Duke Ellington Orch. | Duke Ellington-Unknown Session | Columbia LP | Jazz |
| 08:16 pm | Things Ain't What They Used To Be | Cecil Taylor | Cecil Taylor-Jumpin' Punkins | Candid LP | Jazz |
| 08:33 pm | Abstraction | Ornette Coleman with Contemporary String Quartet | John Lewis Presents Contemporary Music-Jazz Abstractions | Atlantic LP | Jazz |
| 08:34 pm | Piece For Guitar & Strings | Jim Hall with Contemporary String Quartet | John Lewis Presents Contemporary Music-Jazz Abstractions | Atlantic LP | Jazz |
| 08:44 pm | Two Spirituals | Dollar Brand | Dollar Brand-Ode To Ellington | Inner City LP | Jazz |
| 08:51 pm | Response Ability Part 1 | Joe McPhee | Joe McPhee-Soprano | Roaratorio LP | Jazz |
| 08:52 pm | Altar Call | Miccosukee Church of God of Prophecy | Drop On Down In Florida | Florida State of The Arts 2LP | Jazz |
| 08:58 pm | If You Just Hold Out | James Cleveland and The Southern California Community Choir | James Cleveland and The Southern California Community Choir-It's A New Day | Savoy 2LP | Jazz |
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