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The origins of popular music; minstrelsy and war between the states; the rise of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley; the Ragtime era and the Coon Shouters; the early years of jazz; Broadway and the golden age of songwriting; the Jazz Age, the Great Depression and new markets - race and Hillbilly music; big band jazz; the swing era begins; small-group jazz, the jukebox and the new independent labels; the 1940s - war and other calamities; the early 1950s - frustration and confusion; music for grown-ups; rock 'n' roll - or, black music to the rescue (again); the abdication of a generation; a last gasp of innocence; the 1960s - a folk boom, a British invasion, the soul years and the legacy of an era; the heat death of pop music; black music - everybody's still doing it.