Lost sounds : blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890-1919

Author:

Brooks, Tim.

Title:

Lost sounds : blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890-1919 / Tim Brooks ; appendix of Caribbean and South American recordings by Dick Spottswood.

Format:

E-Book

Published:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2005.

Language:

English

Description:

1 online resource.

URL:

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Other contributors:

Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith)

Series:

Music in American life

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [589]-594), discography (pages [581]-587) and index. Available on campus and off campus with authorized login.

Contents:

• The early years
• Talking machines!
• The trial of George W. Johnson
• The Unique Quartette
• Louis "Bebe" Vasnier : recording in nineteenth-century New Orleans
• The Standard Quartette and South before the War
• The Kentucky Jubilee Singers
• Bert Williams and George Walker
• Cousins and DeMoss
• Thomas Craig
• The Dinwiddie Quartet
• Carroll Clark
• Charley Case : passing for White?
• The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the popularization of Negro spirituals
• Polk Miller and his Old South Quartette
• Jack Johnson
• Daisy Tapley
• Apollo Jubilee Quartette
• Edward Sterling Wright and the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
• James Reese Europe
• Will Marion Cook and the Afro-American Folk Song Singers
• Dan Kildare and Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra
• The Tuskegee Institute Singers
• The Right Quintette
• Wilbur C. Sweatman : disrepecting Wilbur
• Opal D. Cooper
• Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
• Ford T. Dabney : syncopation over Broadway
• W.C. Handy
• Roland Hayes
• The Four Harmony Kings
• Broome Special Phonograph Records
• Edward H. Boatner
• Harry T. Burleigh
• Florence Cole-Talbert
• R. Nathaniel Dett
• Clarence Cameron White
• Miscellaneous recordings.

Subject headings:

African Americans--Music--History and criticism. Sound recording industry--History. Music--United States--History and criticism.

Genre heading:

Electronic books.

ISBN:

9780252090639 (epub) 0252028503 (alk. paper) 025207307X (paperback)