Tim Brooks

Lost Sounds (eBook, ePUB)

Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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._x000B__x000B_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._x000B__x000B_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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780252090639
• Artikelnr.: 40075037

Autorenporträt

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.  

Inhaltsangabe

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