| 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=10-06-2013 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:10 pm | The Old Tunes | Rev. J.A. Myers | 16843 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:10 pm | Po' Mo'ner Got A Home At Last | Fisk University Jubilee Quartet | 16843 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:12 pm | I Shall Wear A Crown | Arizona Dranes | He Is My Story-The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Drames | Tompkins Square CD | Jazz |
| 07:14 pm | Are You Bound For Heaven or Hell? | Rev. J.M. Gates | Are You Bound For Heaven or Hell? The Best of Rev. J.M. Gates | Columbia Legacy CD | Jazz |
| 07:18 pm | Pray Unto My Father | Bright Moon Quartet | B-6674 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 07:22 pm | I Got A Mother Done Gone On | Original Kings of Harmony | 1005 | King Solomon | Jazz |
| 07:28 pm | We're Gonna Move | Washboard Sam and His Washboard Band | B-7001 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 07:32 pm | 12 Minutes To Go | Illinois Jacquet and His All-Stars | 764 | Apollo | Jazz |
| 07:34 pm | That Funny Feeling | Preston Jackson and His New Orleans Band | 20-2146 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 07:34 pm | Yancey's Blues | Preston Jackson and His New Orleans Band | 20-2146 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 07:43 pm | Boodlin' | Jimmy Yancey | 10-001 | Session | Jazz |
| 07:43 pm | Jimmy's Rocks | Jimmy Yancey | 10-001 | Session | Jazz |
| 07:46 pm | Little Sam | Roosevelt Sykes | 34-0745 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 07:48 pm | Song Of India Boogie | Camille Howard Trio | 433 | Specialty | Jazz |
| 07:58 pm | Stompin' At The Savoy | Gene Krupa Trio | The Complete JATP on Verve 1944-1949 | Verve 10CD | Jazz |
| 07:59 pm | Crazy Rhythm | JATP Ensemble | The Complete JATP on Verve 1944-1949 | Verve 10CD | Jazz |
| 08:08 pm | Blues Before Dawn | Barney Bigard Orch. with Georgie Auld | 1206 | Black and White | Jazz |
| 08:10 pm | Conversing in Blue | Benny Morten's All-Stars featuring Webster & Bigard | 46 | Blue Note | Jazz |
| 08:28 pm | Rumpus On Rampart Street | Edmond Hall | Edmond Hall-Rumpus On Rampart Street | Rae-Cox LP | Jazz |
| 08:29 pm | The Outer View | George Russell Sextet | George Russell-The Outer View | Riverside LP | Jazz |
| 08:35 pm | Warm Canto | Mal Waldron Sextet | Fire Waltz-Eric Dolphy | Prestige 2LP | Jazz |
| 08:44 pm | Warm Canto | Mal Waldron Sextet | Fire Waltz-Eric Dolphy | Prestige 2LP | Jazz |
| 08:48 pm | Goin' Home | Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan | Goin' Home-Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan | Steeplechase LP | Jazz |
| 08:50 pm | The Call | Mal Waldron Trio | Black Glory | Enja LP | Jazz |
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