In this Book
- Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Music in American Life
Drawing on more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black recording artists and profiles forty 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, plus a host of lesser-known voices. Many of these pioneers struggled to be heard in an era of rampant discrimination. Their stories detail the forces––black and white––that gradually allowed African Americans to enter the mainstream entertainment industry.
Lost Sounds includes Brooks's selected discography of CD reissues and an appendix by Dick Spottswood describing early recordings by black artists in the Caribbean and South America.
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Copyright Page
- p. iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Part One George W. Johnson, The First Black Recording Artist
- 1 The Early Years
- pp. 15-25
- 2 Talking Machines!
- pp. 26-49
- 3 The Trial of George W. Johnson
- pp. 49-71
- Part Two Black Recording Artists, 1890–99
- 4 The Unique Quartette
- pp. 75-82
- 7 The Kentucky Jubilee Singers
- pp. 103-105
- 8 Bert Williams and George Walker
- pp. 105-148
- 9 Cousins and DeMoss
- pp. 148-150
- 10 Thomas Craig
- pp. 151-152
- Part Three Black Recording Artists, 1900–1909
- 11 The Dinwiddie Quartet
- pp. 155-159
- 12 Carroll Clark
- pp. 159-172
- 13 Charley Case: Passing for White?
- pp. 172-191
- 15 Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette
- pp. 215-233
- Part Four Black Recording Artists, 1910–15
- 16 Jack Johnson
- pp. 237-254
- 17 Daisy Tapley
- pp. 254-258
- 18 Apollo Jubilee Quartette
- pp. 258-259
- 20 James Reese Europe
- pp. 267-292
- 23 The Tuskegee Institute Singers
- pp. 320-327
- 24 The Right Quintette
- pp. 327-333
- Part Five Black Recording Artists, 1916–19
- 25 Wilbur C. Sweatman: Disrespecting Wilbur
- pp. 337-354
- 26 Opal D. Cooper
- pp. 355-363
- 27 Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
- pp. 363-395
- 28 Ford T. Dabney: Syncopation over Broadway
- pp. 395-409
- 29 W. C. Handy
- pp. 410-465
- 30 Roland Hayes
- pp. 466-452
- 31 The Four Harmony Kings
- pp. 452-463
- 32 Broome Special Phonograph Records
- pp. 464-470
- 33 Edward H. Boatner
- pp. 470-472
- 34 Harry T. Burleigh
- pp. 473-485
- 35 Florence Cole-Talbert
- pp. 486-488
- 36 R. Nathaniel Dett
- pp. 488-492
- 37 Clarence Cameron White
- pp. 492-496
- Part Six Other Early Recordings
- 38 Miscellaneous Recordings
- pp. 499-522
- Select CD Discography
- pp. 581-587
- Bibliography
- pp. 589-594
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