Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Song of the Duwamish -- Chapter 2: Gaslight Serenade -- The All-Conquering Piano -- Revolution in Brass -- Hoedown -- Boomtown -- Sojourners -- Music Goes Pro -- Union Music Is Best -- Hot Times -- Chapter 3: Music on the Make -- Seattle's Tin Pan Alley -- That Seattle Rag -- Union Militant -- Women Take the Stand -- A City Sings -- Dance Crazy -- The Mighty Wurlitzer -- A Glorious Cacophony -- The Old Bandmaster -- New Sound Comin -- The Genteel Tradition -- Chapter 4: Musician's Dream -- Jazz Age -- Sounds of the Silver Screen -- Hotel Style -- The New Woman -- Fall and Rise of the Symphony -- Canned Music -- Chapter 5: Easing Depress ion -- Clouds -- Hard Times -- Seattle Swings (and Polkas) -- Pacific Rim -- College Rhythm -- Jackson Street Jumps -- The Classics Dig In -- Chapter 6: Wartime Whoopie -- Dancing the War Away -- Dustbin -- Postwar DanceBands -- Bebop and Beyond -- Turning Points -- Chapter 7: Dizzy Decade -- Indian Summer -- Nightclubbing -- Mods and Trads -- Piano Jazz -- Those Other Keyboards -- The Guitar Catches Up -- Singers Take the Spotlight -- Folk Revival -- The City Goes Country -- A Great Break -- Slippery Slope -- Chapter 8: Groovin' High -- White Coats in the Go-Go Decade -- The House that Katims Built -- New Dimensions -- Jazz Changes -- Soul Searchers -- Folk Scare -- Chapter 9: Carrying the Torch -- Sturm und Drang -- Bravo Opera! -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.