Biographies of the first African-American recording stars, and how they succeeded against tremendous odds.
CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed?PART ONE: George W. Johnson, the First Black Recording Artist1. The Early Years2. Talking Machines!3. The Trial of George W. JohnsonPART TWO: Black Recording Artists, 1890-994. The Unique Quartette5. Louis "Bebe" Vasnier: Recording in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans6. The Standard Quartette and South before the War7. The Kentucky Jubilee Singers8. Bert Williams and George Walker9. Cousins and DeMoss10. Thomas CraigPART THREE: Black Recording Artists, 1900-190911. The Dinwiddie Quartet12. Carroll Clark13. Charley Case: Passing for White?14. The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Popularization of Negro Spiriituals15. Polk Miller and His Old South QuartettePART FOUR: Black Recording Artists, 1920-1516. Jack Johnson17. Daisy Tapley18. Apollo Jubilee Quartette19. Edward Sterling Wright and the Poery of Paul Laurence Dunbar20. James Reese Europe21. Will Marion Cook and the Afro-American Folk Song Singers22. Dan Kildare and Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra23. The Tuskegee Institute Singers24. The Right QuintettePART FIVE: Black Recording Artists, 1916-1925. Wilbur C. Sweatman: Disrespecting Wilbur26. Opal D. Cooper27. Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake28. Ford T. Dabney: Syncopation over Broadway29. W. C. Handy30. Roland Hayes31. The Four Harmony Kings32. Broome Special Phonograph Records33. Edward H. Boatner34. Harry T. Burleigh35. Florence Cole-Talbert36. R. Nathaniel Dett37. Clarence Cameron WhitePART SIX: Other Early Recordings38. Miscellaneous RecordingsAppendix: Caribbean and South American RecordingsNotesSelect CD DiscographyBibliographyIndex
Tim Brooks is Executive Vice President of Research at
Lifetime Television. He is the author of Little Wonder Records: A
History and Discography and other books, as well as past president
of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Dick
Spottswood is a freelance author, broadcaster, and record
producer. He is the author of the seven-volume reference work,
Ethnic Music on Records.
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
"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
"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
"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
"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
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