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Lost sounds :

(Number (ISBN

0252028503

(Number (ISBN

025207307X

(Number (ISBN

9780252028502

(Number (ISBN

9780252073076

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b411113

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b411113

Title Proper

Lost sounds :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890-1919 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Tim Brooks ; appendix of Caribbean and South American recordings by Dick Spottswood.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 634 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

27 cm.

Series Title

Music in American life

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-594), discography (p. 581-587) and index.

Text of Note

George W. Johnson, the first Black recording artist. The early years ; Talking machines! ; The trial of George W. Johnson -- Black recording artists, 1890-99. 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 -- Black recording artists, 1900-1909. 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 -- Black recording artists, 1910-15. 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 -- Black recording artists, 1916-19. 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 -- Other early recordings ; Miscellaneous recordings.

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Text of Note

"Applying more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black artists who recorded commercially in a wide range of genres and provides revealing biographies of some forty of these audio pioneers. Brooks assesses the careers and recordings of George W. Johnson, Bert Williams, George Walker, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, W.C. Handy, James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman, Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, Booker T. Washington, and boxing champion Jack Johnson, as well as a host of lesser-known voices."--Jacket.

Text of Note

"The first in-depth history of the involvement of African Americans in the earliest years of recording, this book examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising role black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age."

African Americans-- Music-- History and criticism.

Music-- United States-- History and criticism.

Sound recording industry-- History.

Enregistrements sonores - Industrie - Histoire.

Musique - États-Unis - Histoire et critique.

Noirs américains - Musique - Histoire et critique.

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Edition

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Book number

Brooks, Tim.

Spottswood, Richard K., (Richard Keith)

Date of Transaction

20180925232223.2

Electronic name

[Book]

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