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Tim Brooks
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African American social history
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Eubie Blake
George W. Johnson
George Walker
Harry T. Burleigh
history of African American music
history of African American recording
history of black music
history of black recording
James Reese Europe
life story
Noble Sissle
record industry early history
recording artists
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Roland Hayes
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the Fisk Jubilee Singers
W. C. Handy
Wilbur Sweatman

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252073076
  • Weight: 1107g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Jul 2005
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A groundbreaking history of African Americans in the early recording industry, Lost Sounds 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.

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.
About Tim Brooks
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.
 

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