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Contents
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION Love and Strife
Drive and Swerve
Afro-Celtic Fusion
PART I Minstrelsy, or Get Out de Way
America’s First Music Craze
The Horrors and Delights of Blackface Entertainment
PART II Ragtime, or All Coons Alike
Ragtime’s Buried Roots: Brass Bands and the Birth of the Record Industry
Banjos, Coon Songs, and Vocal Groups
PART III Black Folks’ Opera
Blues into Jazz
The Pathology of an Infection: The Blues in New Orleans and New York
Two Crazes: Jazz, 1917–1921; The Blues, 1920–1924
Birth of a New Art: Enrico Caruso, a Whole Bunch of Other Guys, and Louis Armstrong
CODA Emmett’s Children, or Hillbilly Music
RECORDS
BOOKS
INDEX
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