[CD 2 contents]. Shout for joy / Albert Ammons (Ammons, piano)

Carolina shout / James P. Johnson (Johnson, piano)

Taxi war dance / Count Basie & Lester Young (Count Basie orchestra)

Mood indigo / Ellington, Bigard, Mills (Duke Ellington orchestra)

Take five / Paul Desmond (Dave Brubeck Quartet)

Tonight : from West Side story / Leonard Bernstein (original cast recording)

Bess, you is my woman now : from Porgy and Bess / George Gershwin (Laurence Winters, Camilla Williams, Lehman Engal, conductor)

Daddy and home / Jimmy Rodgers (Rodgers)

Cajun two step / trad. (Cajun Fais Do-Do)

Earl's breakdown / Earl Scruggs (Flatt & Scruggs, banjos)

New San Antonio Rose / Bob Wills (Bob Wills band)

At the river / Charles Ives (William Parker, baritone, Dalton Baldwin, piano)

The banshee / Henry Cowell (Cowell, piano)

Ensembles for synthesizer / Babbitt (realisation by Babbitt)

Kebjar Hudjan Mas / trad.

The perilous night / John Cage (Margaret Leng Tan, piano)

Fanfare for the common man ; Simple gifts : from Appalachian spring / Copland (London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Copland)

Afro-American symphony. [Movement] III / William Grant Still (London Symphony Orchestra, Paul Freeman, conductor)

Sound patterns / Pauline Oliveros (Brandeis New Music Chorale, Alvin Lucier, conductor).

[CD 1 contents]. Yeibichai chant song / trad.

Sioux grass dance / trad.

Old hundred / L. Bourgeois (Burl Ives)

Barbara Allen / trad. (Pete Seeger)

Yankee Doodle / trad. (fife & drums)

Chester ; When Jesus wept / William Billings (Gregg Smith Singers)

Sherburne / Reade (Alabama Sacred Harp Convention)

Adagio in C, K 617a / Mozart (Bruno Hoffmann, glass harmonica)

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen / trad. spiritual, arr. Laurence Brown (Paul Robeson)

They'll be joy, joy, joy / trad. (Carter Family)

Amazing grace / trad. (Robeson)

Shenandoah / trad. (Pete Seeger)

El Cutilio / trad.

Jeannie with the light brown hair (Gregg Smith Singers) ; Oh Susanna (Pete Seeger) / Stephen Foster

I wish I was in Dixie's land / trad.

Le bananier / Louis Gottschalk (Klaus Kaufmann, piano)

Fuga giacosa / John Knowles Paine (Malcolm Frager, piano)

The years at the spring / Amy Cheney Beach (Donald Steinberg, piano)

When Johnny comes marching home / P. Gilmore (Kirk Brown, guitar)

The Stars and Stripes forever / John Phillip Sousa (Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Elgar Howarth, conductor)

Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin (Joshua Rifkin, piano)

Blue skies / Irving Berlin (Harry Connick Jr.)

Night and day / Cole Porter (Fred Astaire)

Hellhound on my trail / Robert Johnson (Johnson)

St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (Bessie Smith)

Hotter than that / Lil Armstrong (Louis Armstrong)

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