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.
| 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 | 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. — ASCAPWinner 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,...
