Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Part One 1790 to 1860 -- 1. Music Publishing in the New Republic 1790-1800 -- Philadelphia, New York, and Boston -- 2. The Business of Popular Music 1800-1860 -- Copyright -- Changing Technology -- 3. Sheet Music Publishing in Pre-Civil War America -- Philadelphia -- New York -- The Nineteenth-Century Social and Stage Dance -- European Music Publishers in New York -- Boston -- The South -- Frontier and Western Music Publishers -- The Board of Music Trade -- The Other Music-Publishing Business -- 4. American Musical Theater 1800-1860 -- In Search of a National Popular Music -- Yankee Doodle on the Stage -- Early Growth of the Frontier Theater -- The Black American Discovered -- The American Stage Black and His Music -- The American Circus-Incubator of the Minstrel Show -- The Arrival of the Minstrel Show -- 5. The Music of God's Americans 1800-1860 -- Worship Under the Open Skies -- The Shape-Note Business -- The First Great Urban Evangelists -- The Lunch-Hour Revival Movement -- The American Sunday School Movement -- Lowell Mason and Popular Religious Music -- 6. The Music of Black Americans 1800-1860 -- Popular Music and Black Americans -- The Emergence of the Black Spiritual -- Part Two 1861 to 1909 -- 7. "The Singin'est War" 1861-1865 -- Song Publishing in the Confederacy -- Song Publishing in the North -- Some Civil War Songs and Their Writers -- 8. The Music of God's Americans 1865-1909 -- The Singing Evangelists -- The Shape-Note Business -- 9. Black Music in America 1860-1909 -- The Spirituals -- Minstrels and the Millionaires of Minstrelsy -- The First Great Black Songwriters -- Cakewalks and Coon Songs -- Classic Ragtime, Its First Rise and Fall -- 10. The American Musical Theater 1865-1909 -- Popular Music on the Post-Civil War Stage -- Vaudeville and Popular Music.

11. Popular Music in the Age of Gigantism 1866-1909 -- Music Publishing in the Midwest -- Copyright and the Music Business -- Changing Technology and Distribution -- Mr. Edison's Wonderful Talking Machine -- The Board of Music Trade -- The Pianola and the Victrola -- The Pursuit of Copyright Revision -- Tin Pan Alley -- Bibliography -- Index.