Introduction
Part I African Influences, Early Styles
Cultural Spheres
Richard Waterman
Oily Wilson
Eddie S. Meadows
Old-Time Music, Composers and Performers
Mississippi Sheiks, Howard Armstrong
Joseph Aquller Thompson
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Harlem Renaissance Social Context Issues
Pre-1900 African American Theater
African American Musical Theater in the Harlem Renaissance
Africa in Blues
Blues Styles
Mississippi Delta
Texas
Kevin Moore (Keb Mo)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal)
Classic Blues
Early Urban and Urban Blues
Profiles of Selected Blues Musicians
Eddie James "Son" House
Charley Patton
Robert Johnson
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
Bessie Smith
Riley Ben King (B. B. King)
Boogie Woogie and Ragtime
Concepts
New Orleans Ragtime
Jelly Roll Morton Influence
St. Louis Ragtime
Eastern Ragtime
Boogie Woogie vs Ragtime
Part II Evolution of Jazz, 1900-
Africa in Jazz
Randolph Edward Weston
Steve Coleman
Jazz Styles
New Orleans Jazz
Profiles of New Orleans Jazz Composers and Performers
Louis Armstrong
Jelly Roll Morton
Swing
Concepts, Composers, and Performers
Musical attributes of Swing
Duke Ellington
Count Basic
Bebop
Comcepts, Profiles
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonious Monk
Charles Parker
Hard Bop
Jazz Fusions Styles
Soul Jazz
Jazz Rock
Third Stream
Profiles of Jazz Fusion Composers and Performers
Horace Silver
Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
Weather Report
Generic Concepts of Fusion Jazz
From Hard Bop to the Avant-garde: John Coltrane
Coltrane's Use of Modes
John Coltrane's Late Modal Style Summarized
Avant-garde, Free, Creative Music
Concepts, Profiles
Generic concepts
Sun Ra
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Wadada Leo Smith, AACM, Creative Music
Ornette Coleman
Profiles of Contemporary Jazz Composers and Performers
Steve Coleman
Robert Glasper
Charles Gayle
Jason Moran
Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Matthew Shipp
Kimasi Washington
Musical Attributes of Jazz Vocalists
Issues, Trends, and Developments in Jazz, Past and Present
Musical Developments and Trends
Non-Musical Developments and Trends
Part III Popular Music after
Doo Wop, Rhythm and Blues
White Covers of Black Rhythm and Blues
Soul Music
Curtis Mayfield
Funk
Motown Records
The Stax Sound
Philadelphia International Records
Atlantic Records
Neo Soul
Hip Hop Culture
Pioneers of Hip Hop
Elements of Hip Hop Culture
Additional Core Hip Hop Cultural Elements
Regional Rap
New Directions and Criticism
Rappers who converted to Islam
Profiles of Rappers
Cordozar Calvin Broadus, jr. (Snoop Dogg)
Shawn Corey Carter (Jay-Z)
Sean John Combs (P. Diddy)
Lesane Parish Crooks (Tupac Amaru Shakur)
Curtis James Jackson 111 (50 Cent)
O'Shea Jackson, Sr. (Ice Cube)
Kendrick Lamar
N.W.A. (Niggaz Wit Attitudes)
Christopher George Wallace (Notorious B.I.G.)
Kanye O. West
Andre Romelle Young (Dr. Dre)
Part IV Religious Music
Spirituals
Profiles of Spiritual Performers:
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Paul Leroy Robeson
Marian Anderson
Gospel Music
Profiles of Gospel Music Composers and Performers
Charles Albert Tindley
Thomas A. Dorsey
Mahalia Jackson
James Cleveland
Andrae Crouch
Part V Euro-American Classical Music
African American Composers and Performers of Euro-American
Classical Music
Thomas Jefferson Anderson
Margaret Allison Bonds
Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork
Ulysses Kay
Florence Price
Hale Smith
William Grant Still
George Theophilus Walker