American popular music: from minstrelsy to MP3

Themes and streams of American popular music

"After the ball" : popular music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

"Catching as the small-pox" : social dance and jazz, 1917-1935

"I got rhythm" : the golden age of Tin Pan Alley song

"St. Louis blues" : race records and hillbilly music

"In the mood" : the swing era, 1935-1945

"Choo choo ch'boogie" : the postwar era, 1946-1954

"Rock around the clock" : rock 'n' roll, 1954-1959

"Good vibrations" : American pop and the British invasion, 1960s

"Blowin' in the wind" : country, soul, urban folk, and the rise of rock, 1960s

The 1970s : rock music, disco, and the popular mainstream

Outsiders' music : progressive country, reggae, punk, funk, and rap, 1970s

The 1980s : digital technology, MTV, and the popular mainstream

"Smells like teen spirit" : hip-hop, "alternative" music, and the entertainment business

Conclusion.

CD 1. Jeanie with the light brown hair (Thomas Hampson)

Castle House rag (Europe's Society Orchestra)

Tiger rag (Original Dixieland Jazz Band)

El Manicero (Don Azpiazú and his Havana Casino Orchestra)

My blue heaven (Gene Austin)

April showers, 1921 version (Al Jolson)

April showers, 1932 version (Al Jolson)

St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith)

That black snake moan (Blind Lemon Jefferson)

Gospel ship (The Carter Family)

Blue yodel no. 2 (Jimmie Rodgers)

Wrappin' it up : the Lindy glide (Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra)

Taking a chance on love (Benny Goodman)

Paper doll (The Mills Brothers)

In the mood (Glenn Miller and His Orchestra)

New San Antonio rose (Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys)

Brazil (Xavier Cugat and his Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra)

Nancy with the laughing face (Frank Sinatra)

Mambo no. 5 (Perez Prado and his Orchestra)

Choo choo ch' boogie (Louis Jordan)

Hoochie coochie man (Muddy Waters)

Mama, he treats your daughter mean (Ruth Brown)

Hound dog (Big Mama Thornton)

It's mighty dark to travel (Bill Monroe)

Maybellene (Chuck Berry).

CD 2. Shake, rattle and roll (Joe Turner)

Shake, rattle and roll (Bill Haley and His Comets)

Sh-boom : life could be a dream (The Chords)

Sh-boom : life could be a dream (The Crew Cuts)

Mystery train (Little Junior's Blue Flames)

Mystery train (Elvis Presley)

Long tall Sally (Little Richard)

Don't be cruel (Elvis Presley)

La bamba (Ritchie Valens)

Charlie Brown (The Coasters)

My girl (The Temptations)

You can't hurry love (The Supremes)

Good vibrations (Beach Boys)

Watermelon man (Mongo Santamaria)

El watusi (Ray Barretto)

Papa's got a brand new bag, part 1 (James Brown)

Respect (Aretha Franklin)

Like a rolling stone (Bob Dylan)

Oye como va (Santana)

Bad girls (Donna Summer)

Pedro Navaja (Willie Colón and Rubén Blades)

The message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)

Walk this way (Run-D.M.C. featuring Aerosmith).