A griot's art : the story of everything
Canaries, canarios : a new music in an old world
Go down chariot : The Georgia Sea Islands and Fanny Kemble. The slavery spirituals, Lydia Parrish and Zora Neale Hurston
Skiffles, tubs and washboards : good time music before the Blues
Red Clark's list : New Orleans street jazz and the Eureka brass band in the 1950s
A dance in ragged time : "Shake the world's foundation with the maple leaf rag!"
Gal, you got to go back to Bimini : The Bahamas, its rhymers, and Joseph Spence
Pretenders, caressers, lions, and a mighty sparrow : Trinidad's sweet calypso
It be like thunder if a man live close : nights in Trinidad's pan yards
Reggae is a new bag : Kingston streets, Kingston nights
To feel the spirit : Gospel song in the great churches of Harlem
A prince of zydeco : Louisiana's zydeco blues and good rockin' dopsie
Como se llama este ritmo? : Bebo Valdés, the music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista social club
Bahia nights : Carnival in Brazil's black world.