| 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=10-20-2013 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:11 pm | Play That Barbershop Chord | Bert Williams | A-929 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:12 pm | 12th Street Rag | Six Brown Brothers | 10205 | Emerson | Jazz |
| 07:13 pm | Hoodoo Man | Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orch. | 2627 | Brunswick | Jazz |
| 07:16 pm | Doin' You Good | Boyd Senter and His Senterpedes | 21912 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:16 pm | I'm Lonely | Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys | 1381-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:25 pm | Bag of Blues | Jack Pettis and His Pets | 21793 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:27 pm | Moon Rose | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | 25281 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:30 pm | By The Light of The Silvery Moon | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Test Pressing | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:34 pm | High Tide | Count Basie Orch. | 36990 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:39 pm | Mad Boogie | Count Basie Orch. | 36946 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:42 pm | Patience and Fortitude | Count Basie Orch. vcl. Jimmy Rushing | 36946 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:46 pm | Ghost Of A Chance | Cab Calloway Orch. | 38171 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:48 pm | Hey Now Hey Now | Cab Calloway Orch. | 37081 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:04 pm | Women (They'll Get You) | Duke Ellington Orch. | 38576 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:04 pm | (Maybe I Should) Change My Ways | Duke Ellington Orch. | 38576 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 08:10 pm | It's The Talk Of The Town | Roy Eldridge Orch. | 23783 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:10 pm | Les Bounce | Roy Eldridge Orch. | 23783 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:15 pm | Sauterne Special | Joe Lutcher's Jump Band | 15361 | Capitol | Jazz |
| 08:16 pm | Lucky Lindy Boogie | Joe Lutcher's Jump Band | 15361 | Capitol | Jazz |
| 08:19 pm | And Say It Again | Milt Hinton Orch. | 604 | Staff | Jazz |
| 08:26 pm | Oo-La-Fee | Milt Hinton Orch. | 604 | Staff | Jazz |
| 08:33 pm | Sweet As Bear Meat | Johnny Hodges Orch. | Used To Be Duke-Johnny Hodges and His Orchesra | Verve LP | Jazz |
| 08:35 pm | Warm Valley | Johnny Hodges Orch. | Used To Be Duke-Johnny Hodges and His Orchesra | Verve LP | Jazz |
| 08:36 pm | Pithecanthropus Erectus | Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop | Pithecanthropus Erectus-The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop | Atlantic LP | Jazz |
| 08:44 pm | Early Autumn | Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra | Holiday For Soul Dance | Saturn LP | Jazz |
| 08:52 pm | Body and Soul | Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra | Holiday For Soul Dance | Saturn LP | Jazz |
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