附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-264), discography (p. 265-270) , and index.
"To thee sing Psalm wil I": The roots of the myth in Puritan music -- "We led fair FREEDOM hither": The Revolutionary War era -- "From every mountainside": From the Revolution to the outbreak of the Civil War -- "Who shall rule this American nation?": The Civil War era -- "A thoroughfare for freedom beat": From the end of the Civil War to the end of the Great War -- "Of thee I sing, Baby": The Tin Pan Alley years, 1920-1950 -- "This land is your land": The Folk-Protest Movement and other voices, 1920-1960 -- "They've all come to look for America": The late 1950s and the 1960s -- "You can't be forever blessed": The 1970s -- "Born in the U.S.A.": The 1980s.