| 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=11-16-2014 |
| Time | Title | Artist | Album | Label | Genre |
| 07:08 pm | My Cairo Love | All Star Trio | 18602 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:11 pm | Slippery Hank | Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band | 18321 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:11 pm | Yah-de-dah | Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band | 18321 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:18 pm | Take It Cause It's All Yours | Edith Wilson and Johnny Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds | A-3634 | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:25 pm | Mellophone Stomp | Goof Moyer | 36511 | Pathe Actuelle | Jazz |
| 07:26 pm | Milenberg Joys | Boyd Senter | 36320 | Pathe Actuelle | Jazz |
| 07:30 pm | Cobble-Stones | Ted Lewis and His Band | 1313-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:30 pm | Mary Ann | Ted Lewis and His Band | 1313-D | Columbia | Jazz |
| 07:37 pm | Lucky Little Devil | Miff Mole and His Little Molers vcl. Scrappy Lambert | 41371 | Okeh | Jazz |
| 07:40 pm | One Step To Heaven (Windy City Stomp) | Miff Mole and His Little Molers | Test Pressing | Test Pressing | Jazz |
| 07:42 pm | Don't You Think I Love You? | King Oliver and His Orch. | 23001 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:42 pm | Struggle Buggy | King Oliver and His Orch. | 23001 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:54 pm | Do Something | McKinney's Cotton Pickers | V-38051 | Victor | Jazz |
| 07:54 pm | It's A Precious Little Thing Called Love | McKinney's Cotton Pickers | V-38051 | Victor | Jazz |
| 08:00 pm | Nobody's Sweetheart | Cab Calloway and His Orch. | 15941 | Perfect | Jazz |
| 08:02 pm | You Dog | Cab Calloway and His Orch. | 15541 | Perfect | Jazz |
| 08:13 pm | Nickel In The Slot | Wingy Mannone and His Orch. | 3171 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 08:13 pm | Swing, Brother, Swing | Wingy Mannone and His Orch. | 3171 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 08:17 pm | If We Never Meet Again | Putney Dandridge and His Orch. | 3291 | Vocalion | Jazz |
| 08:18 pm | Decca Stomp | Red Norvo and His Orch. | 691 | Decca | Jazz |
| 08:23 pm | This and That | Mary Lou Williams | 1008 | Asch | Jazz |
| 08:31 pm | I Can't Get Started (With You) | Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop | Jazz Portraits-Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop | United Artists LP | Jazz |
| 08:35 pm | Alto-Itis | Oliver Nelson Sextet | Oliver Nelson-Screamin' The Blues | Prestige CD | Jazz |
| 08:41 pm | Where Poppies Bloom | Archie Shepp (New York Contemporary Five) | New Music: Second Wave-Archie Shepp, Marzette Watts | Savoy 2LP | Jazz |
| 08:52 pm | Like A Blessed Lamb | Archie Shepp (New York Contemporary Five) | New Music: Second Wave-Archie Shepp, Marzette Watts | Savoy 2LP | Jazz |
| 08:54 pm | God Bless The Child | Ran Blake | The Blue Potato and Other Outrages-Ran Blake | Milestone LP | Jazz |
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