| 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=10-13-2013 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:08 pm | Keeps On A-Rainin' | Bessie Smith | A-3898 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:10 pm | Gulf Coast Blues | Fletcher Henderson Orch. | 14636 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:10 pm | I Need You | Rosa Henderson | A-3958 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:17 pm | Milenberg Joys | Boyd Senter | 14501 | Perfect | Jazz |
| 07:19 pm | Could I? I Certainly Could | Miss Lee Morse and Her Blue Grass Boys | 11616 | Perfect | Jazz |
| 07:29 pm | Birmingham Breakdown | Duke Ellington Orch. | 6801 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:29 pm | Lewisada Blues | Ted Lewis Band | 1916-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:30 pm | Sophisticated Lady | Jimmie Lunceford Orch. | 129 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:32 pm | Unsophisticated Sue | Jimmie Lunceford Orch. | 129 | Decca | Jazz |
| 07:41 pm | Utt Da Zay | Cab Calloway Orch. | v5062 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:42 pm | Crescendo in Drums | Cab Calloway Orch. | v5062 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 07:45 pm | Body and Soul | Earl Hines | B-10642 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 07:48 pm | Child Of A Disordered Brain | Earl Hines | B-10642 | Bluebird | Jazz |
| 07:50 pm | Uptown Blues | Jimmie Lunceford Orch. | 5362 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:56 pm | Put It Away | Jimmie Lunceford Orch. | 5362 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:59 pm | The Moon Fell In The River | Count Basie Orch. vcl. Helen Humes | 5884 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 08:03 pm | Five O'Clock Whistle | Count Basie Orch. | 5922 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 08:05 pm | Brand New Wagon | Count Basie Orch. vcl. Jimmy Rushing | 20-2529 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 08:11 pm | Futile Frustration | Count Basie Orch. | 20-2529 | RCA Victor | Jazz |
| 08:13 pm | New Air Mail Special | Georgie Auld Quintet | 523 | Royal Roost | Jazz |
| 08:16 pm | Out of Nowhere | Georgie Auld Quintet | 523 | Royal Roost | Jazz |
| 08:21 pm | Down Home | Milt Buckner with the Hamp-Tone All-Stars | 102 | Hamp-Tone | Jazz |
| 08:32 pm | Air Mail Special | Georgie Auld Orch. | 373 | Musicraft | Jazz |
| 08:35 pm | Ghost Of A Chance | Charlie Ventura | 10051 | Sunset Recordings | Jazz |
| 08:35 pm | Tea For Two | Charlie Ventura | 10051 | Sunset Recordings | Jazz |
| 08:48 pm | Holiday For Strings | Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra | Holiday For Soul Dance | Saturn LP | Jazz |
| 08:48 pm | Dorothy's Dance | Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra | Holiday For Soul Dance | Saturn LP | Jazz |
| 08:50 pm | Pithecanthropus Erectus | Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop | Pithecanthropus Erectus-The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop | Atlantic LP | Jazz |
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