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1856-1899. January 17, 1856, Houma Ceres: Slave funeral -- November 15, 1856, Dwight's Journal: Songs of the blacks -- November 22, 1856, Charleston Mercury: Lilliputian musicians (slave band) -- August 1863, Continental Monthly: Under the palmetto -- July 1869, Nation: Three years ago as a negro minstrel -- April 5, 1873, Dwight's Journal: Negro folk songs -- December 17, 1883, Critic: Plantation music -- 1892, Music: Negro music -- November 1893, New England Magazine: Old plantation hymns -- January 18, 1898, Shreveport Sunday Judge: Music among the negroes -- January 1899, New England Magazine: Hymns of the slave & the freedman -- February 1899, New England Magazine: Recent negro melodies -- May 4, 1899, Shreveport Sunday Judge: Ragtime -- May/October 1899, Century Magazine: Negro spirituals -- June 1899, The Etude: Ragtime -- September 1899, Popular Science Monthly: The survival of African music in America -- Autumn 1899, Brainards Musical Journal: Syncopated music -- |
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1900-1909. March 1900, Musician: Ragtime -- May 30, 1900, Music Courier: Ragtime communication -- September 1900, Musical Record: Music and the negro -- July 1901, American Musician: War on ragtime -- July 1901, American Musician: Suppression of "ragtime" -- October 1901, Cosmopolitan: From breakdown to ragtime -- November 1901, Musician: Syncopated rhythm vs. "ragtime" -- 1901, Metronome: The origin of ragtime -- October 1902, Musician: Ethiopian syncopation: the decline of ragtime -- January-March 1903, Journal of American Folk-Lore: Notes on negro music -- July 23, 1903, Independent: The true negro music -- 1903, Metronome: The musical possibilities of ragtime -- September 22, Napoleon Pioneer: Gordon colored minstrels coming -- October 1906, Metronome: Negro melodies of Scotch origin -- November 1906, Musician: Lafcadio Hearn and Congo music -- November 1906, Musician: Sources of "Congo songs" -- October 1907, Crest Musical Bulletin: The evolution of minstrelsy -- January 1908, Crest Musical Bulletin: Negro minstrelsy -- January 1908, Crest Musical Bulletin: Negro minstrelsy, from its origins to the present day -- |
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1910-1919. September 1910, Jacob's Orchestra Monthly: Questions & answers -- June 1911, Jacob's Orchestra Monthly: "Clarinet" or "clarionet" -- September 1911, Jacob's Orchestra Monthly: The selection of accessories -- December 2, 1911, Musical America: Works of American composers reveal relation of ragtime to art-song -- December 23, 1911, Variety: Ragtime vs. classical -- May 25, 1912, Donaldsonville Chief: Negro folk-songs -- August 1912, Orchestra Monthly: The ethics of ragtime -- September 21, 1912, Musical America: Dangers that lie in ragtime -- February 4, 1913, Variety: "Ragtime" speaking all over continent -- February, Musical Opinion & Musical Trade Review: Rag-time on Parnassus -- March 1913, English Review: Ragtime, the new tarantism -- May 28, 1913, Musical Courier: Remarks on ragtime -- September 1913, The Cadenza: Something about ragtime -- August 12, 1914, The Music Courier: Cadman on "ragtime" -- May 1, 1915, The Chicago Defender: William Marion Cook -- August 1915, Ragtime Review: Ragtime in New Orleans -- August 1915, Ragtime Review: The teaching of ragtime vs. classical -- August 1915, Ragtime Review: What about ragtime? -- October 16, 1915, The New Republic: Ragtime -- November 1, 1915, The Musician: Negro folk song recital -- November 6, 1915, The New Republic: Extols ragtime article -- February 1916, Opera Magazine: Ragtime and American music -- May 27, 1916, Literary Digest: Canning negro melodies -- August 1916, Ragtime Review: About ragtime -- August 1916, Ragtime Review: What has "ragtime" to do with "American music?" -- December 1916, Choir Leader: The origin of the negro spirituals -- 1916, Journal of the Folk Lore Society of Texas: The "blues" as folk-songs -- July 1917, Seven Arts: A modest proposal -- August 25, 1917, Literary Digest: The appeal of the primitive jazz -- October 19, 1917, Variety: Blues are blues -- March 1918, New Music Review: Concerning ragtime -- April 1918, New Music Review: Negro spirituals -- January 1919, Musical Quarterly: Negro music at birth -- March 1919, Musician: Capturing the spirit of the real negro music -- April 26, 1919, Literary Digest: Stale bread's sadness gave "jazz" to the world -- April 26, 1919, Literary Digest: A negro explains "jazz" -- August 1, 1919, Music Record: A jazz band concert -- August 1919, Current Opinion: Delving into the genealogy of jazz -- August 1919, Music Review: The doughboy carries his music with him -- September 1919, Current Opinion: Enigmatic folksongs of the southern underworld -- September 1919, Music Student: Negro folk song -- |
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1920. June 12, Literary Digest: Classical vs. jazzical music -- June 12, Musical America: Spreading the gospel of negro music -- June 19, Musical America: The marche funebre of "jazz" -- July 31, Life, Letters and the Arts: Jazz -- August, Current Opinion: Jazz & ragtime are the preludes to a great American music -- August, Musician: A hopeful view of the ragtime roll -- December, Melody: Jazz music and the modern dance -- 1921. January 11, New York Times: Voliva bans jazz records -- February 5, New Statesman: Jazz music -- May 11, New Republic: The economic interpretation of jazz -- August, Ladies Home Journal: Does jazz put the sin in syncopation? -- September, New Republic: "Plus de jazz" -- September, New York Times: Both jazz music and jazz dancing barred -- December 18, New York Times: "Jazz 'er up!": Broadway's conquest of Europe -- December, Ladies Home Journal: Unspeakable jazz must go! -- 1922. January 6, Variety: Origin of "blues" (or jazz) -- January 14, Literary Digest: Jazz played out -- February 12, New York Times: Two-step to jazz sent by wireless -- February 18, New York Times: About books, more or less: in the matter of jazz -- March 3, New York Times: Primitive savage animalism, preacher's analysis of jazz -- March 4, Variety: Scoffs at fear of jazz -- March 18, Literary Digest: Students in arms against jazz -- March 30, Music Courier: Variationettes -- April 6, Musical Courier: Song echoes from the old south -- April 7, New York Times: Musician is driven to suicide by jazz -- April 13, Music Leader: A jazz conference -- April 19, Melody: Bert Williams, Negro comedian -- April, Metronome: Jazz and the motion picture -- April, Piano Trade Magazine: That "jazz" wail again -- May 4, Musical Courier: "Jazz" the national anthem, part I -- May 6, Literary Digest: "To jazz" or "to rag" -- May 11, Musical Courier: "Jazz" the national anthem, part II -- May 13, Musical America: Tilts at Carl Engel over jazz -- May 13, Music Trades: "Jazz" waits at this church -- May, Metronome: Jazz, the present-day live issue in the development of American music -- May, Musician: The decline of jazz -- June 1, Musical Courier: Jazz music & and its relation to African music -- June 23, Variety: Reviews of recording discs -- June 25, New York Times Book Review & Magazine: Jazz latitude -- June, Metronome: Charinski defends jazz -- June, Metronome: An opinion of "jazz" -- July 7, New York Times: Fails to stop jazz, is arrested later -- July 22, Musical America: Says jazz would galvanize American opera -- July 28, New York Times: Queen Mary bars jazz -- July, Metronome: Drum taps -- August, Atlantic Monthly: Jazz, a musical discussion -- August, Metronome: Some further opinions on "jazz" by prominent writers -- September, Melody: A defense of jazz & ragtime -- September, Metronome: The boys who arrange the tunes you play -- September, Metronome: Fixing the blame for jazz -- September, Metronome: The spirit of '76 in jazz -- September, Music Lover's Magazine: The "new" jazz -- October 11, The New York Times: Win war on jazz with better songs -- October 25, Nation: Jazz -- October 26, Musical Courier: Leave "jazz" alone -- October, Musical Observer: College jazz and what it symbolizes -- November 4, New York Times: Ban on jazz sacrilege -- November 16, Musical Courier: Of interest to composers -- December 10, New York Times: Drawing a line for jazz -- December 10, New York Times: Shady dance steps barred by police -- December 17, New York Times: Jazz -- December 29, New York Times Book Review & Magazine: Putting the music into the jazz -- December, Metronome: Riesenfeld as the latest defender of jazz -- December, New Music Review: Concerning jazz -- Musical Quarterly: (Untitled) -- |
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1923. January 4, Musical Leader: "Nothing great can afford shackles: in youth there is hope" -- January 18, Musical Courier: Jazz -- January, American Organist: Jazz and the organist -- January, Melody: Frank Westphal, Chicago exponents of jazz -- January, Metronome: Drawing a line for jazz -- January, Metronome: Song & dances of the southland -- February, Metronome: Detrimental effects of jazz on our younger generation -- March 10, Musical America: Ducasse uses ragtime in new tone poem -- March, The Etude: The poetic & melodic gifts of the negro -- March, Metronome: Town clef topics -- March, Musical Observation: Jazz, says Darius Milhaud, is the most significant thing in music today -- April 11, Melody: Ted Lewis of jazz band fame -- April 13, Music Leader: A jazz conference -- April 19, Melody: Jazzing jazz to death -- April 26, Music Leader: "High class" jazz -- May 31, Music Courier: Representative of 2,000,000 women, meeting in Atlanta -- May, Metronome: Are American hotels sponsoring truly national music? -- June, The Etude: The jazz fiddler -- June, Metronome: Wolverine Blues a big hit -- June, Vanity Fair: Jazz, a brief history -- July 5, Music Courier: Jazz again -- July 12, Music Courier: Casella on jazz -- July, Metronome: The make-up of a modern orchestra -- August 23, Dial: Toujours jazz -- August 25, Colliers: Jazz may be lowbrow, but... -- August 30, Music Courier: (Untitled) -- August, The Etude: Yes, I teach 'em jazz -- August, Metronome: Clarence Williams inc. enlarges quarters -- September, Metronome: Clarence William, a specialist on "blues" -- September, Metronome: Meyer Davis thinks jazz symbolic of America -- September, Metronome: Pre-jazz, jazz, post jazz -- September, Metronome: Quality in "blues" -- October, Sheet Music News: Origin of "blues" numbers -- November 4, Musical America: More jazz for the violin -- November 10, Musical America: Novelty is spice -- November 24, Musical America: Is jazz "the American soul"? -- November, Musical Digest: Eva Gauthier -- December, Metronome: How's business with the dance orchestra boys -- December, Metronome: Instrumentation for theatre pit and dance orchestras -- December, Metronome: Jazzing the masters -- |
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1924. January 16, The New York Times: Say jazz will surely live -- January 24, Musical Courier: Lopez on jazz -- January, The Etude: What's the matter with jazz -- January, Sheet Music News: Classics in "jazz tempo" -- February 7, Musical Courier: Jazz or... -- February 7, Musical Courier: Jazz or "Modern popular music" to be heard & discussed at composers league lecture -- February 14, Musical Courier: An afternoon of jazz -- February 7, Musical Courier: Jazz or "modern popular music" to be heard & discussed at composers league lecture -- February 14, Musical Courier: An afternoon of jazz -- February 14, Musical Courier: Jazz at worst -- February 21, Musical Courier: An experiment in music -- February 21, Musical Courier: Jazz and syncopated music -- February 21, Musical Courier: Jazz band -- February 23, Musical America: Capacity house fervently applauds as jazz invades realm of serious music -- February, Arts & Decoration: The national music fallacy, is American music to rest on a foundation of ragtime & jazz? -- February, Cadenza: What jazz has done to the fretted instruments -- February, The Flutist: Jazz, its origin, effect, future -- February, Musical Digest: For better or for worse -- February, Sheet Music News: Orchestra leaders differ -- February, Sheet Music News: Paul Whiteman's experiment -- February, Sheet Music Review: Popular music recital -- March 5, Nation: Jazz and "the rhapsody in blue" -- March 5, Outlook: Jazz -- March, Baton: An interview with H. T. Burleigh -- March, Metronome: The inventor of the saxophone and its history -- March, Musical Courier: (Untitled) -- March, Sheet Music News: Defend "jazz tempo" -- March, Sheet Music News: Lopez in jazz concert -- March, Sheet Music News: The Whiteman concert -- March, Sunset Magazine: Why you like jazz -- April 24, Musical Observer: Stokowski declares in favor of "jazz" -- April, Arts & Decorations: Position of jazz in American development -- April, The Baton: Accursed jazz -- April, Metronome: Negro spirituals -- May 12, Independent: Jazz worship -- May 22, Musical Courier: First he played the viola & now he's Paul Whiteman -- May 22, Musical Courier: Whitman & Whiteman -- May, The Etude: The musical genius of the American negro -- May, Jacob's Band Monthly: Is "jazz" constructive or destructive? -- May, Metronome: Column by Ed. Chenette -- May, Musical Observer: Vincent Lopez comments on his unique experiment -- June 7, Musical America: Paul Whiteman & his orchestra (Critics' reviews) -- June 11, Nation: (Untitled) -- June 19, Music Leader: The trend of the times -- June 21, Musical America: Eva Gauthier would make reforms in our concert halls -- June, American Magazine: Paul Whiteman made jazz contagious -- June, The Etude: To jazz or not to jazz -- June, Metronome: Rhythmic symphonic syncopation vs. modern jazz -- June, Musical Observer: The story of the negro spiritual "Nobody knwos the trouble I've seen" -- June/July, Jacob's Band Monthly: Jazz, is it music or something else? -- July 5, Literary Digest: Putting jazz in its place -- July 8, Musical Digest: Towards defining the jazz formula -- July 19, Musical America: Jazz music not such as "Enfant terrible" after all -- July, The Etude: Getting down to the truth about jazz -- July, Melody: American popular music & its progress -- July, Melody: Jazz, the newest musical phenomenon -- July, Metronome: France's ban on jazz -- July, Metronome: The origin of ragtime -- July, Musical Observer: Eva Gauthier comments on her experiment in jazz -- August 2, Musical News and Herald: The nature and function of jazz -- August 16, Musical America: Twilight descends on the gods of Tin Pan Alley -- August, The Etude: American dance music is not jazz -- August, The Etude: Jazz, lowbrow and highbrow -- August, The Etude: What is jazz doing to American music? -- August, The Etude: What's the matter with jazz -- August, Mercury: Jazz -- August, Metronome: The banjo today and yesterday -- August, Music Trade News: Jazzmania, the home of the sax -- September 1, Musical Times: Ad libitum -- September 1, Musical Times: Ragtime -- September, The Etude: The Etude's jazz bomb -- September, Metronome: Jazz referred to as the inventive spirit of America -- September, The Etude: What effect is jazz likely to have upon the music of the future? -- September, The Etude: Where is jazz leading America? -- September, The Etude: Would Mozart write fox-trots if he lived to-day? -- September, Melody: Intolerance and jazz -- October 18, Living Age: The jazz band & negro music -- October, New Statesman: Plus que jazz -- November 20, Music Courier: Jazz vs. the Arkansaw traveler -- November 20, Music Courier: Kahn on Jazz -- November 28, Musical News: Kahn wants a jazz opera to produce on Metropolitan stage -- November, Music Trade News: Russian conductor on "jazz" -- December 12, Music News: Our jazz symposium -- December 27, Musical American: Jazz takes root in classics, asserts Sigmund Spaeth -- December, Current Opinion: Where jazz is taking us musically -- 1924, Jacob's Orchestra Monthly & The Cadenza: The difference between "jazz" and "popular music" -- |
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1925. January 3, Collier's: Who invented jazz? -- January 3, Independent: Jazz breaks into society -- January 10, Literary Digest: (Untitled poem on jazz) -- January 10, Saturday Evening Post: The reign of reeds & rhythm -- January 25, New York Times: Soulful youths buy saxophones -- January, The Etude: The Dixie piccolo -- February 7, Living Age: The triumph of the jungle -- February, Flutist: Symphonic jazz -- February, Musical Courier: In the matter of jazz -- February, Scribner: Ragtime, jazz and high art -- March 1, The Survey: Jazz at home -- March 7, Saturday Evening Post: The lay of the last minstrels -- March 15, New York Times: (Untitled) -- March, Harvard Graduate Magazine: Jazz -- March, Vanity Fair: George Gershwin -- April 11, Musical America: New American drama of redemption utilizes jazz -- April 25, Musical America: Awaiting the great America opera: how composers are paving the way -- April, American Magazine: Interesting people... Meyer Davis runs sixty two jazz orchestras -- May, Opportunity: Jazz -- June 5, London Evening News: Interview with Otto Kahn -- June 11, Musical Courier: Philadelphia hears first complete jazz symphony -- June, Vanity Fair: The cult of jazz -- July, Music & Letters: Jazz -- August, The Sackbut: Jazz -- August, Vanity Fair: The black blues -- September 19, Literary Digest: On with the "Charleston" -- September, The Sackbut: Music in America -- November 4, New Republic: Shake your feet -- November 14, Musical America: Has jazz hurt concert giving? Managers say "No!" -- November 14, Musical America: Songs learned from negro nurse & folk-works interest C. Stratton -- November, American Mercury: The jazz bugaboo -- November, The Sackbut: The jazz myth -- November/December, Modern Music: The day after tomorrow -- December 9, Nation: From spirituals to swing -- December 9, Nation: The pedant looks at jazz -- December 12, Musical America: Orchestras, oscillate between Beethoven & jazz -- December 12, Musical America: Jazz apotheosis is Philadelphia event -- December 12, Musical America: "Syncopating symphonist" -- December 15, Metronome: Development of the jazz band & North American negro music -- December 19, Musical America: Jazz as folk music -- December 23, New Republic: lady jazz in the vestibule -- December, Radio Broadcasting: Is the popularity of jazz music waning? -- M.T.N.A. Proceedings: Jazz & American music -- |
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1926. January 13, Nation: Music, two parodies -- January 13, New Republic: The jazz problem -- January 20, Nation: Music jazz leaves home -- January 30, Literary Digest: King jazz and the jazz kings -- February 1, Metronome: Is jazz coming or going? -- February 3, New Republic: Blue notes -- February 13, Musical America: Jazz as art music piles failure on failure -- March 13, Literary Digest: The descent of jazz upon opera -- March 13, Living Age: Franz Lehar on jazz -- March, Harper's: The anatomy of jazz -- April 5, Living Age: The immortals object -- April 10, Independent: Jazz in high places -- April, American Mercury: The anatomy of jazz, part I -- April 17, New Statesman: Waltz-kings & jazz-king -- April 24, Literary Digest: Free trade or war for jazz? -- April, American Mercury: The anatomy of jazz -- April, Musical Quarterly: "Jazz" an educational problem -- May 29, Literary Digest: The quarries for jazz -- June, Flutist: How to understand and enjoy negro spirituals -- June, Nation: The negro artist and the racial mountain -- July 1, Metronome: Never has popular music been as classical jazz -- August 19, Musical Courier: The spirituals come into their own -- September 18, Musical America: Newman excoriates jazz -- October 1, Metronome: American jazz is not African -- October 16, Musical America: Negro work-songs prove treasure house of race character -- October 16, Musical America: an anthology concerning "blues" -- October 20, New Republic: Jerome Kern -- November 23, Musical Digest: Jazz is assuming -- Prominence as an American music idiom -- November, Monthly Musical Record: Jazz and the modern spirit -- November, The Musical Opinion: Another word about jazz -- November, Musical Opinion: What's wrong with jazz -- November/December, Modern Music: The blues -- November/December, Modern Music: Jazz structure & influence -- December 1, New Republic: Jazz and folk art -- December 4, Musical News and Herald: The source of the negro spiritual -- December 11, Christian Science Monitor: 1900 -- Musical Quarterly: Views and reviews -- Peabody Bulletin: Broadway jazz -- Popular Mechanics: Where jazz comes from -- |
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1927. January 8, CSM: Jazz dressed up & uneasy -- February 2, Outlook: America's folk music -- February 2, Outlook: Gershwin & musical snobbery -- February 15, Life, Letters and the Arts: Newman on jazz -- March 26, The Literary Digest: Debunking jazz -- April, Sackbut: The American intoxicant -- May, The Etude: More "hot & dirty" breaks -- May/June, Modern Music: Copland's jazz concerto in Boston -- June, The Etude: What effects has jazz upon present day music & composers -- July, Chesterian: Jazzing up the symphony orchestra -- August 11, Musical Courier: A medico on jazz -- September 3, Literary Digest: The doctor looks at jazz -- September 10, CSM: Musical hopes for musical comedy -- September, American Mercury: Aaron Copland and his jazz -- September, Chesterian: The influence of jazz -- October 22, CSM: The standardization of jazz -- October, The Metronome: Some English observations upon a first hearing of a jazz band concert -- December 14, New Republic: A New York diary -- Music Quarterly: (Untitled) -- 1928. February 22, Outlook: Gershwin and jazz -- March 17, Literary Digest: When Europeans compose jazz -- March, Chesterian: The first jazz opera and operetta -- May 9, New Republic: A New York diary -- May, North American Review: Jazzmania -- June, Bookman: "Ballads, songs & snatches" -- July, Forum: Jazz is music -- July, Life and Letters: Jazz -- August 25, Musical America: Jazz gets a national twist -- August, Forum: Jazz is not music -- September, British Musician: A syncopated apology (part I) -- October, British Musician: A syncopated apology (part II) -- October, Forum: Jazz -- December, Forum: Is jazz music? -- 1929. January 26, Musical America: This question of spirituals -- January, Journal of Education: The age of jazz -- February 13, Nation: A note on Gershwin -- March 10, Musical America: Hitching jazz to a star -- March, Musician: Jazz knocks in vain at opera's door -- March, Review of Reviewing: Jazz arrives at the opera -- May 18, CSM: Stravinsky, Weill and jazz -- June, British Musician: Paul Whiteman -- August, British Musician: Jazz -- September, The Etude: The jazz barrage -- September, The Etude: Jazz, whither bound? -- September, Music Teacher: George Gershwin "Rhapsody in blue" -- October, Musical Quarterly: Jazz debit & credit -- October/March, Catholic World: Black music -- November, Metronome: Making the first talking picture of a jazz orchestra -- December, Musical Courier: Radio interest to suppress jazz. |
| Abstract |
This anthology was compiled to aid the scholar working on the origins and evolution of jazz. Covering materials published through 1929, it also begins with articles from 1856 which do not concern jazz directly, but will serve to present a solid foundation for understanding the American music scene from which jazz developed. Chronologically listed and well-indexed, the hundreds of articles comprise, in effect, a history of jazz as it evolved. Beginning with accounts of negro music in the pre-jazz era, continuing in an exploration of spirituals, followed by a description of ragtime, we finally learn about the development of jazz from its practitioners and informed audiences of the time. |
| General note | Includes indexes. |
| LCCN | 2002027080 |
| ISBN | 1576470245 (hardcover) |
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