21 September

Start/end of class: "Art of Almost" by Wilco from The Whole Love (2011)

Example of acoustic recording: "St. Louis Blues" by Bessie Smith (Louis Armstrong, cornet) (1925)

Example of electric recording: "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong's Hot Five (1928)

Example of syncopated dance music: "Castle House Rag" from Europe's Society Orchestra from CD accompanying textbook (1914)

Contemporary recording of syncopated dance music: "Castle House Rag" by the New England Ragtime Ensemble from The Art of the Rag (1973)

Example of New Orleans jazz: "Doctor Jazz" by Jelly Roll Morton (1926)