Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: In the Beginning -- Chapter 1 Treats of the Parallel Rise of the Industrial Revolution, the Blues, Radical Abolitionism & Mechanical & Martial Time -- Chapter 2 Treats on the Parallel Rise of Radical Abolitionism, American-Born Blackface, Immigrant Upper-Lower & Lower-Middle Classes, and Their Indoctrination in the Ways of American Life & Free-Time -- Chapter 3 A Brief Passage on the Emergence of the Democratic Party, Daddy Rice, Uncle Sam, Indians & "Discovery," 1832 -- Chapter 4 Treats of Minstrels and Minstrelsy, Invention of the Common Man, the Jacksonian Era, and Indians Conceding Their Lands -- Chapter 5 The Middle Passage: P. T. Barnum, History as Entertainment in Multi Voices, 1835-1842 -- Chapter 6 A Middle Passage, or Bridge: Traversed by Frederick Douglass, William Henry Lane, and a Sense of the Increased Speed of Things, 1843-1848 -- Chapter 7 Daddy Rice Runs the Doo Doo Down: Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown Turn Up the Heat, 1848-1870 -- Chapter 8 The Civil War & Beyond Back to Where We Began: And Notions of High & Low Culture -- Dividing to Conquer, 186?-1871 -- Chapter 9 Reprise of the Bridge Crossing Theme: A Variation with a Blues Tinge -- Chapter 10 Reconstruction & Beyond: William T. Sherman, Eadweard Muybridge & Syncopated Loco-Motion of Moving Images & the Transcontinental Railroad, 1871-1877 -- Chapter 11 Jim Crow Crosses Over from Entertainment to Law, the Parallel Rise of Klan-Whiteface in White Face & Black Faced Blackface & Slave Spirituals -- Chapter 12 W. E. B. Du Bois & Booker T. Washington Step Up & Step Out & Black Minstrelsy Turns a Corner, P. T. Barnum Crosses A Bridge, Rag Kicks Up Its Heels & Thomas Jefferson Shows His Dark Side, 1880s-1890s.

Chapter 13 Entering the White City: Shunted to the Shadowy Margins, but Tapping Out a Syncopated Meter, a New Tune, Whose Force Changed the Way the White City Denizens Go About Their Goings About & the Freedom & Dignity with Which They Go About It & the Relative Positions They Assume in the New World A-Comin', Guest Starring Christopher Columbus, Eadweard Muybridge, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Little Eva, Frank Baum & Others, 1893 -- Chapter 14 The Buffalo Bill Show's Rough Ride Across the Bridge from Old History to New Myths, Featuring Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull, Queen Victoria & Walt Whitman -- Chapter 15 The Long March of Change Continues: Vaudeville Arrives, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois & the Blues (at Their Beginning) Return & Rag's Infection Rages, as We Consider Voodoo, Thermodynamics & Continue to Hear Dead People & Living Spirits, 1898-1900 -- Illustration Credits.