Lost Sounds by Brooks, Tim -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright 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 Spirituals 15. Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette

Part Four: Black Recording Artists, 1910–15

16. Jack Johnson 17. Daisy Tapley 18. Apollo Jubilee Quartette 19. Edward Sterling Wright and the Poetry 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 Dick Spottswood Notes Select CD Discography Bibliography Index