| 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=07-14-2013 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:06 pm | Toots | Dr. Clarence Penney | 17694 | Victor | |
| 07:06 pm | The Clock and The Banjo | Harry Reser | 20439 | Victor | |
| 07:07 pm | Me And My Shadow | Eddie Peabody | 20699 | Victor | |
| 07:16 pm | Feeling The Way I Do | Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) | 032041 | Pathe Actuelle | |
| 07:18 pm | Bad Habits | Boyd Senter | 40755 | Okeh | |
| 07:19 pm | Carolina Moon | Gay Ellis (Annette Hanshaw) | 2826-G | Diva | |
| 07:20 pm | Maui Chimes | Gay Ellis (Annette Hanshaw) | 2826-G | Diva | |
| 07:31 pm | Never Had A Reason To Believe In You | Mound City Blue Blowers | B-10209 | Bluebird | |
| 07:31 pm | Indiana | Mound City Blue Blowers | 1946-D | Columbia | |
| 07:34 pm | Gotta Be, Gonna Be Mine | Washboard Rhythm Kings | F-3781 | Decca | |
| 07:39 pm | If It Ain't Love | Chick Webb Orch. vcl/Charles Linton | 41571 | Okeh | |
| 07:40 pm | Shake Your Ashes | Claude Hopkins Orch. | Test Pressing | Columbia | |
| 07:49 pm | Everything's Okey Dokey | Little Ramblers | B-6144 | Bluebird | |
| 07:50 pm | Lovely Liza Lee | Bernard Addison and His Rhythm | B-6144 | Bluebird | |
| 07:51 pm | Alamamy Bound | Stephane Grappelly acc/Django Reinhardt | SW.21 | Swing | |
| 07:54 pm | I've Found A New Baby | Stephane Grappelly acc/Django Reinhardt | SW.21 | Swing | |
| 07:54 pm | I Gotcha | Don Redman Orch. | 06-08-02 | Perfect | |
| 08:15 pm | Water Boy | Earl Hines Orch. vcl/Billy Eckstine | B-11.329 | Bluebird | |
| 08:15 pm | Windy City Jive | Earl HInes Orch. | B-11.329 | Bluebird | |
| 08:16 pm | Front And Center | John Kirby Orch. | 5520 | Vocalion | |
| 08:17 pm | Nocturne | John Kirby Orch. | 5520 | Vocalion | |
| 08:17 pm | Impromptu | John Kirby Orch. | 5570 | Okeh | |
| 08:23 pm | Up Jumped The Devil | Earl Hines Orch. | B-11237 | Bluebird | |
| 08:23 pm | Southside | Earl Hines Orch. | B-11237 | Bluebird | |
| 08:31 pm | Lordy | Cab Calloway Orch. vcl/Cab and The Cabaliers | 36751 | Columbia | |
| 08:31 pm | The Moment I Laid Eyes On You | Cab Calloway Orch. | 36751 | Columbia | |
| 08:34 pm | Bear-Mash Blues | Erskine Hawkins Orch. | 30-0813 | Bluebird | |
| 08:34 pm | Don't Cry, Baby | Erskine Hawkins Orch. | 30-0813 | Bluebird | |
| 08:35 pm | Cotton Tail | Illinois Jacquet Orch. | 8945 | Mercury | |
| 08:46 pm | Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams | Illinois Jacquet Orch. | 8945 | Mercury | |
| 08:48 pm | Mood Indigo | Duke Ellington Orch. | Masterpieces By Ellington | Columbia LP |
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