Introduction
Prelude. Basic Properties of Musical Sound
Part 1. Music in Early North America
1. North American Indian Music
2. Early Folk Music
3. Religious Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods
4. Secular Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods
Part 2. The Tumultuous Nineteenth Century
5. Religious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century
6. Popular Music of the Civil War Era
7. Concert Music
Part 3. The Growth of Vernacular Traditions
8. The Rise of Popular Culture
9. The Jazz Age
10. Jazz 1930-1960
11. Country Music
12. Latin Popular Musics
Part 4. Vernacular Musics Since Rock and Roll
13. Rock and Roll
14. Rock Flirts with Country
15. Late Twentieth-Century Jazz
16. Popular Music in the Late Twentieth Century
17. Vernacular Music in the Twenty-First Century
Part 5. Music for Theater and Film
18. Musical Theater
19. Music for Films
20. American Opera
Part 6. Tradition and Innovation in Concert Music
21. Experimental Music: Revolution
22. Early Twentieth-Century Mainstream Concert Music: Evolution
23. The Avant-Garde, Continued
24. The Recent Mainstream
The Charge
Glossary
Listening Examples
Optional Listening Examples

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