Ebook: Stomp and swerve: American music gets hot, 1843-1924

Love and strife -- Minstrelsy, or, Get out de way -- Ragtime, or, All coons alike -- Black folks' opera -- Emmett's children, or, Hillbilly music.;The early decades of American popular music--Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso--are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music--black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude--made it onto records for all to hear. This book brings a forgotten music, hot music, to life by describing how it became the dominant American music--how it outlasted sentimental waltzes and parlor ballads, symphonic marches and Tin Pan Alley novelty numbers--and how it became rock 'n' roll. It reveals that the young men and wom.