TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooks,Tim
AU  - Spottswood,Richard K.
TI  - Lost sounds: blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890-1919 
T2  - Music in American life
SN  - 0252028503 (alk. paper)
AV  - ML3479 .B76 2004
U1  - 781.64/149/08996073 21
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Sound recording industry
KW  - History
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [589]-594), discography (p. [581]-587) and index; 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
ER  -