| 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=04-27-2014 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 08:11 pm | That Lovin' Traumerei | Al Jolson | 17119 | Victor | Jazz |
| 08:13 pm | La Gazelle | Alice J. Shaw | 5306 | Victor | Jazz |
| 08:13 pm | Pas des Patineurs | Orchestre 'Odeon' | 33408 | Disque Odeon | Jazz |
| 08:16 pm | Artist's Life Waltz | Hurtado Bros. Marimba Band | 35557 | Victor | Jazz |
| 08:17 pm | O Death Where Is Thy Sting | Bert Williams | A-2652 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:24 pm | Down Hearted Blues | Boyd Senter | 41115 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 08:27 pm | Original Stack O' Lee Blues | Boyd Senter and His Senterpedes | 41115 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 08:32 pm | Ain'tcha? | Helen Kane | 22192 | Victor | Jazz |
| 08:33 pm | Call Of The Freaks | Harlem Wildcats | 6012 | Varsity | Jazz |
| 08:37 pm | Mouthful O' Jam | Harlem Wildcats | 6012 | Varsity | Jazz |
| 08:41 pm | You've Been Reading My Mail | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | B.10191 | HMV | Jazz |
| 08:43 pm | I'm Going Back To Old Zazoo | Locke Bros. Rhythm Orch. | B-6297 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 08:50 pm | Elephant Stomp | Locke Bros. Rhythm Orch. | B-6297 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 08:53 pm | Caravan | Barney Bigard and His Jazzopators | Duke Ellington-The Small Groups Vol. 1 | Columbia Legacy 2CD | Jazz |
| 08:55 pm | Hurry Sundown | Richard Huey and His Sundown Singers | 8656 | Decca | Jazz |
| 09:01 pm | Make Believe | Coleman Hawkins All-American Four | 1317 | Keynote | Jazz |
| 09:11 pm | Blue (and Broken Hearted) | Mildred Bailey | 35589 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 09:11 pm | Sunny Morning | Teddy Wilson | 371 | Musicraft | Jazz |
| 09:15 pm | Tea For Two | Gene Krupa Orch. vcl. Anita O'Day | 38345 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 09:17 pm | Opportunity | Erskine Hawkins Orch. vcl. Ace Harris | 20-3825 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 09:19 pm | Beale Street Blues | Erskine Hawkins Orch. | 20-3668 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 09:22 pm | Keyboard Kapers | Earl Hines Swingtette | 10382 | MGM | Jazz |
| 09:25 pm | Cottontail | Ben Webster Quintet | 89063 | Clef | Jazz |
| 09:29 pm | Rock and Roll Blues | Anita O'Day | 8967 | Mercury | Jazz |
| 09:33 pm | Dear Angel | Amos Milburn | 3370 | Aladdin | Jazz |
| 09:37 pm | Body and Soul | Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra | Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra-Holiday For Soul Dance | Saturn LP | Jazz |
| 09:40 pm | (I Loves You) Porgy | Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra | Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra-Holiday For Soul Dance | Saturn LP | Jazz |
| 09:45 pm | 411 West | Shirley Scott | Shirley Scott-Hip Soul | Prestige LP | Jazz |
| 09:52 pm | Something To Live For | Ran Blake | Ran Blake-Duke Dreams | Soul Note LP | Jazz |
Playlist Artists:
Playlist Labels: