Lost sounds : Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890-1919

The Resource Lost sounds : Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890-1919
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Lost sounds : Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890-1919
Title remainder
Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890-1919
Statement of responsibility
Tim Brooks ; appendix of Caribbean and South American recordings by Dick Spottswood
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "The first in-depth history of the involvement of African Americans in the earliest years of recording, this book examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising role black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age."
  • "Applying more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black artists who recorded commercially in a wide range of genres and provides revealing biographies of 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."--Jacket
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Cataloging source
E7B
Dewey number
781.64/149/08996073
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
ML3479
LC item number
.B76 2004eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
  • discographies
Series statement
Music in American life
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