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Informationen zum Autor Tim Brooks Klappentext Biographies of the first African-American recording stars, and how they succeeded against tremendous odds. Zusammenfassung Features the history of the involvement of African Americans in the early recording industry and 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
