19th Century & Earlier

Let It Roll episodes that cover early forms of music up to the late 19th century.

Let It Roll Originals

• Beethoven freed music from the tyranny of patronage

• My Old Kentucky Home's Century of Myth

• Record Men From Thomas Edison to John Hammond & Chris Blackwell

• The Cultural Blend That Made New Orleans Music Unique

• The Subversive Side of Classical Music

• How 19th Century American Music Got Hot

• Edison's Phonograph vs. the Gramophone

Latin Roll

• Latin Roll 3: The most popular American musician of the 19th century connected Cuba and New Orleans

• Latin Roll 2: Clave and the contradance in the colonial Caribbean

• Latin Roll 1: The musics of Europe and Africa collided in Cuba

HolyRoll

• HolyRoll 2: Jubilee Singers and Barbershop Quartets Continued the Evolution of African-American Music

• HolyRoll 1: In America African Culture Survived as The Spiritual