Music and politics in San Francisco: from the 1906 quake to the Second World War

The Paris of the West : San Francisco at the turn of the century

From the quake to the crash

The politics of class : the San Francisco Symphony, the People's Philharmonic, and the lure of European culture (1911-1930)

The politics of race : Chinatown, forbidden and alluring

Interlude 1 : two musical tributes to San Francisco's Chinatown

The politics of labor : the union(s), the clubs and theaters, and the predicament of black musicians

Musical utopias : Ada Clement, Ernest Bloch, and the San Francisco Conservatory

Opera : the people's music or a diversion for the rich?

The Depression and beyond

The despair of the Depression and the clash of race

Ultramodernism and other contemporary offerings : looking west, challenging the East

The politics of work : idealism confronts bureaucracy in the Federal Music Project

Interlude 2 : highlights from San Francisco's Federal Music Project : take your choice and keeton's concert spirituals

Welcoming the world : San Francisco's fairs of 1915 and 1939?-1940

Aftermath.