African Music

Black Music in the Historical Past

Comparison of Rural and Classic Blues Style

Characteristics of Ragtime

Boogie Woogie

Pre-Jazz and the Brass Bands

Early Jazz (Dixieland)

Chicago

The Swing Era

Bebop

Cool

The Return to the Hot: Hard Bop and Funky Jazz

Post Bebop Straight-Ahead

The Breakthrough Year into the Contemporary Period: 1959

The 1960s Avant Garde - An Album Comparison

Soul Jazz

Third-Stream

Ethnic Jazz

Liturgical Jazz