| 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=09-28-2014 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:04 pm | Fuzzy Wuzzy Rag | W.C. Handy's Orch. of Memphis | A-2421 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:06 pm | You'll Never Need A Doctor No More | Bert Williams | A-3339 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:08 pm | You've Never Heard The Blues | Johnny Dunn | 124-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:19 pm | Salt Water Blues | Bessie Smith | 14037-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:21 pm | Ham Gravy | Thomas Morris and His Seven Hot Babies | 20179 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:21 pm | Jackass Blues | Thomas Morris and His Seven Hot Babies | 20179 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:24 pm | Over Night Blues | Paul Howard's Quaility Serenaders | V-38070 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:25 pm | Charlie's Idea | Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders | V-38070 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:32 pm | Doin' The Uptown Lowdown | Mildred Bailey with The Dorsey Bros. Orch. | 01631 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:40 pm | Wild Man Stomp | Memphis Night Hawks | 2593 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:41 pm | Shanghai Honeymoon | Memphis Night Hawks | 2593 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:44 pm | Barefoot Stomp | Clifford Hayes Louisville Stompers | 21489 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:46 pm | Bye-Bye Blues | Clifford Hayes and His Louisville Stompers | 21489 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:52 pm | Oh! Red | Harlem Hamfats | 7182 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:02 pm | Looking The World Over | Memphis Minnie | 6707 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 08:03 pm | Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door | Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five | 8670 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:07 pm | No, Baby, Nobody But You | Lil Green | 34-0728 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 08:10 pm | Blues Before Dawn | Barney Bigard Orch. with Georgie Auld | 1206 | Black & White | Jazz |
| 08:16 pm | Conversing In Blue | Benny Morton's All Stars | 46 | Blue Note | Jazz |
| 08:17 pm | Frustration | Duke Ellington Orch. | 2078 | Mercury | Jazz |
| 08:21 pm | The Hip Cowboy | Slim Gaillard and His Atomic Engineers | 8956 | Mercury | Jazz |
| 08:23 pm | Spur Of The Moment | Charles Mingus | Jazz Experiment | Jazztone LP | Jazz |
| 08:32 pm | Brainville | Sun Ra and His Arkestra | Sun Ra-Sun Song | Delmark LP | Jazz |
| 08:33 pm | Call For All Demons | Sun Ra and His Arkestra | Sun Ra-Sun Song | Delmark LP | Jazz |
| 08:42 pm | Black, Brown & Beige Part IV (Come Sunday) | Duke Ellington Orch. vcl. Mahalia Jackson | Black, Brown and Beige-Duke Ellington | Columbia CD | Jazz |
| 08:47 pm | Caravan | William Parker Orch. | William Parker Orchestra-Essence of Ellington | Centering 2CD | Jazz |
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