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

Author/creator Brooks, Tim
Other author Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Description1 online resource.
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SeriesMusic in American life
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [589]-594), discography (pages [581]-587) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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Issued in other formPrint version: Brooks, Tim. Lost sounds Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2005 0252028503
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019717356
ISBN9780252090639 (epub)
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