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| Introduction | |
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| The First Three Centuries | |
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| The First Song: Native American Music | |
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| European Inroads: Early Christian Music Making | |
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| From Ritual to Art: The Flowering of Sacred Music | |
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| "Old, Simple Ditties": Colonial Song, Dance, and Home Music Making | |
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| Performing "By Particular Desire": Colonial Military, Concert, and Theater Music | |
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| Maintaining Oral Traditions: African Music in Early America | |
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| Correcting "the Harshness of Our Singing": New England Psalmody Reformed | |
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| The Nineteenth Century | |
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| Edification and Economics: The Career of Lowell Mason | |
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| Singing Praises: Southern and Frontier Devotional Music | |
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| "Be It Ever So Humble": Theater and Opera, 1800-1860 | |
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| Blacks, Whites, and the Minstrel Stage | |
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| Home Music Making and the Publishing Industry | |
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| From Ramparts to Romance: Parlor Songs, 1800-1865 | |
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| Of Yankee Doodle and Ophicleides: Bands and Orchestras, 1800 to the 1870s | |
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| From Church to Concert Hall: The Rise of Classical Music | |
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| From Log House to Opera House: Anthony Philip Heinrich and William Henry Fry | |
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| A New Orleans Original: Gottschalk of Louisiana | |
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| Two Classic Bostonians: George W. Chadwick and Amy Beach | |
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| Edward MacDowell and Musical Nationalism | |
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| "Travel in the Winds": Native American Music from 1820 | |
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| "Make a Noise!": Slave Songs and Other Black Music to the 1880s | |
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| Songs of the Later Nineteenth Century | |
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| Stars, Stripes, and Cylinders: Sousa, the Band, and the Phonograph | |
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| "After the Ball": The Rise of Tin Pan Alley | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| "To Stretch Our Ears": The Music of Charles Ives | |
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| "Come On and Hear": The Early Twentieth Century | |
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| The Jazz Age Dawns: Blues, Jazz, and a Rhapsody | |
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| "The Birthright of All of Us": Classical Music, the Mass Media, and the Depression | |
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| "All That Is Native and Fine": American Folk Song and Its Collectors | |
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| From New Orleans to Chicago: Jazz Goes National | |
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| "Crescendo in Blue": Ellington, Basie, and the Swing Band | |
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| The Golden Age of the American Musical | |
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| Classical Music in the Postwar Years | |
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| "Rock Around the Clock": The Rise of Rock and Roll | |
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| Songs of Loneliness and Praise: Postwar Vernacular Trends | |
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| Jazz, Broadway, and Musical Permanence | |
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| Melting Pot or Pluralism?: Popular Music and Ethnicity | |
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| From Accessibility to Transcendence: The Beatles, Rock, and Popular Music | |
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| Trouble Girls, Minimalists, and The Gap: The 1960s to the 1980s | |
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| Black Music and American Identity | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |