Jubilee Singers and Barbershop Quartets Continued the Evolution of African-American Music: Let It Roll From the Beginning...2.4
We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter.
Let It Roll Podcast
"Let it Roll" is a podcast hosted by Nate Wilcox about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.
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How 19th Century American Music Got Hot: Let It Roll From the Beginning...2.3
We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter.
American Music Developed in the 19th Century NYC Underworld: Let It Roll From the Beginning...2.2
We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter.
My Old Kentucky Home's Century of Myth: Let It Roll From the Beginning...Season 2.1
The 150 years of myth-making around Stephen Foster’s song.
Francis Child Collected Ballads and Kicked Off a Craze: Let It Roll From the Beginning 1.12
Academic James Francis Child started collecting old ballads from ancient English books, and scholars were shocked when the same lyrics were found in the American South, still being sung.
The most popular American Musician of the 1800s Connected Cuba & New Orleans: Let It Roll From the Beginning...to the End 1.11
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the most popular and important 19th-century American composer connected New Orleans to Havana.
Scott, Pepys, Dickens - The Literary Roots of The Ballads: Let It Roll From the Beginning...to the End 1.10
The roots of folk music lyrics trace back to the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, as well as major literary figures like Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens.
Beethoven Freed Music From the Tyranny of Patronage: Let It Roll From the Beginning...to the End 1.9
We're relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter.
In America African Culture Survived as The Spiritual: Let It Roll From the Beginning...to the End 1.8
Nate Wilcox and Garrett Cash dive into the roots of African-American spirituals and Gospel’s deep roots in African musical practice.
The Subversive Side of Classical Music: Let It Roll From the Beginning...to the End 1.7
Ted Gioia on the less-than-perfect realities of the lives of the great composers