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CHAPTER 13 CONCERT MUSIC BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS 305

Symphony Orchestras, Celebrity Conductors, and the New Media | Composers, the

Government, and the Marketplace during the Great Depression | A Musical

Revolutionary: Ruth Crawford Seeger | George Gershwin | Black Concert Music

and the Harlem Renaissance | LG 13.1. Ruth Crawford Seeger, “Chinaman, Laundryman” |

LG 13.2. George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue | LG 13.3. William Grant Still, Afro-American

Symphony, fi rst movement (Moderato assai)

CHAPTER 14 BLUES, GOSPEL, COUNTRY, AND FOLK MUSIC IN THE

GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II 332

Country Blues | Thomas A. Dorsey and Gospel Music | Country Music during the

Great Depression and World War II | The Rise of Urban Folk Music | LG 14.1. Robert

Johnson, “Walking Blues” | LG 14.2. Thomas A. Dorsey, “Talk about Jesus” | LG 14.3. Bob Wills

and His Texas Playboys, “Corrine, Corrina” | LG 14.4. Anonymous, “John Henry” |

LG 14.5. Woody Guthrie, “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You”

CHAPTER 15 FILM MUSIC, MUSICAL COMEDY, AND SWING BEFORE

AND DURING WORLD WAR II 361

Film Music | The Broadway Musical through World War II | Jazz in the Swing Era |

LG 15.1. Irving Berlin, “Cheek to Cheek” | LG 15.2. Aaron Copland, “Morning on the Ranch,”

from The Red Pony Suite | LG 15.3. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “People Will Say

We’re in Love,” from Oklahoma! | LG 15.4. Count Basie and Lester Young, Lester Leaps In |

LG 15.5. Billie Holiday, “What Is This Thing Called Love?”

PART 4 AMERICA’S MUSIC SINCE

WORLD WAR II 386

CHAPTER 16 CLASSICAL MUSIC, JAZZ, AND MUSICAL THEATER

AFTER WORLD WAR II 388

Classical Music in the Postwar Years | Jazz in the Postwar Years | Broadway

Musicals in the Postwar Years | LG 16.1. John Cage, Sonata no. 2 | LG 16.2. Charlie Parker,

Yardbird Suite | LG 16.3. Miles Davis, Summertime | LG 16.4. Tito Puente and His Orchestra,

“El cayuco” | LG 16.5. Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, “Tonight” Quintet, from West

Side Story

CHAPTER 17 “GOOD ROCKING TONIGHT”: POPULAR AND FOLK

MUSIC AFTER WORLD WAR II 412

Mainstream Popular Music and the Mass Media in the Postwar Years | Postwar

Country Music | Rhythm and Blues | Rock and Roll | The Urban Folk Revival |

LG 17.1. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, “It’s Mighty Dark to Travel” | LG 17.2. Hank

Williams, “Lost Highway” | LG 17.3. Wynonie Harris, “Good Rocking Tonight” | LG 17.4. Chuck

Berry, “School Day” | LG 17.5. Pete Seeger, “If I Had a Hammer” | LG 17.6. Bob Dylan, “Only a

Pawn in Their Game”

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