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Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 by Brooks
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Pages
- 634
- Publication Date
- 2004-02-24
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780252028502
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252028503
ISBN-13
9780252028502
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2444822
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lost Sounds : Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
Number of Pages
656 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
History & Criticism, Ethnic, Industries / Entertainment
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Business & Economics
Book Series
Music in American Life Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
50.1 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-001102
Reviews
"The authors are ardent scholars . . . the thorough bibliography demonstrates the scope and intensity of the research. This is a welcome contribution to the literature on the African American story, primarily in music but in other disciplines as well."-- Choice, "Tim Brooks has drawn on a staggering array of primary sources to create this wonderful compendium of information. Lost Sounds makes a significant contribution to the field."-- Norm Cohen, author of Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music: An Annotated Discography of Published Recordings, "Brooks has uncovered a wealth of fascinating detail about the record business, its artists, and the range of music they recorded 100 years ago. This engaging work of thorough scholarship is essential reading for anyone interested in the birth of commercial recording and African American music in the early part of the 20th century."--Samuel Brylawski, Head, Recorded Sound Section, Library of Congress, "Tim Brooks has drawn on a staggering array of primary sources to create this wonderful compendium of information. Lost Sounds makes a significant contribution to the field."--Norm Cohen, author of Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music: An Annotated Discography of Published Recordings, "Brooks brings both passion and compassion to the story of the black pioneers who worked as performers and entrepreneurs in the nascent U.S. recording industry."-- Business History Review, " Lost Sounds is a thrilling book; it is rare to encounter a work of this length that supplies so much new information, causing us to reevaluate and reinterpret our understanding of American music and social history."-- Current Musicology, "A monumental achievement in research and sheds light on overlooked aspects of turn-of-the-century popular culture."-- Technology and Culture, Winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 2005. Winner of the ARSC Award for Best Research in General History of Recorded Sound, 2005. Winner of the Irving Lowens Award, given by the Society for American Music for the best work published in 2004 in the field of American music. Tim Brooks received the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004. "An act of cultural reclamation--the great lost heroes of black performance."-- New York Times
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
781.64/149/08996073
Table Of Content
Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed? PART ONE: George W. Johnson, the First Black Recording Artist 1. The Early Years 2. Talking Machines! 3. The Trial of George W. Johnson PART TWO: Black Recording Artists, 1890-99 4. The Unique Quartette 5. Louis "Bebe" Vasnier: Recording in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans 6. The Standard Quartette and South before the War 7. The Kentucky Jubilee Singers 8. Bert Williams and George Walker 9. Cousins and DeMoss 10. Thomas Craig PART THREE: Black Recording Artists, 1900-1909 11. The Dinwiddie Quartet 12. Carroll Clark 13. Charley Case: Passing for White? 14. The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Popularization of Negro Spiriituals 15. Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette PART FOUR: Black Recording Artists, 1920-15 16. Jack Johnson 17. Daisy Tapley 18. Apollo Jubilee Quartette 19. Edward Sterling Wright and the Poery of Paul Laurence Dunbar 20. James Reese Europe 21. Will Marion Cook and the Afro-American Folk Song Singers 22. Dan Kildare and Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra 23. The Tuskegee Institute Singers 24. The Right Quintette PART FIVE: Black Recording Artists, 1916-19 25. Wilbur C. Sweatman: Disrespecting Wilbur 26. Opal D. Cooper 27. Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake 28. Ford T. Dabney: Syncopation over Broadway 29. W. C. Handy 30. Roland Hayes 31. The Four Harmony Kings 32. Broome Special Phonograph Records 33. Edward H. Boatner 34. Harry T. Burleigh 35. Florence Cole-Talbert 36. R. Nathaniel Dett 37. Clarence Cameron White PART SIX: Other Early Recordings 38. Miscellaneous Recordings Appendix: Caribbean and South American Recordings Notes Select CD Discography Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Available in paperback for the first time, this groundbreaking in-depth history of the involvement of African Americans in the early recording industry examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range of black music and culture they preserved.Applying more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black artists who recorded commercially and provides illuminating biographies for 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. Many of these pioneers faced a difficult struggle to be heard in an era of rampant discrimination and ''the color line,'' and their stories illuminate the forces--both black and white--that gradually allowed African Americans greater entree into the mainstream American entertainment industry. The book also discusses how many of these historic recordings are withheld from the public today because of stringent U.S. copyright laws.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., Available in paperback for the first time, this groundbreaking in-depth history of the involvement of African Americans in the early recording industry examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range ......, Available in paperback for the first time, this groundbreaking in-depth history of the involvement of African Americans in the early recording industry examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range of black music and culture they preserved. Applying more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black artists who recorded commercially and provides illuminating biographies for 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. Many of these pioneers faced a difficult struggle to be heard in an era of rampant discrimination and "the color line," and their stories illuminate the forces--both black and white--that gradually allowed African Americans greater entree into the mainstream American entertainment industry. The book also discusses how many of these historic recordings are withheld from the public today because of stringent U.S. copyright laws. 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., A groundbreaking history of African Americans in the early recording industry, Lost Sounds examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range of black music and culture they preserved. 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.
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