The Encyclopedia of Early American Vocal Groups
Subtitle: 100 Years of Harmony 1850 to 1950
Publisher: Harmony Songs Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: West Long Branch, New Jersey
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780971397927
Table of contents: title: vii
label: Acknowledgments; title: ix
label: Introduction; title: 1
label: Chapter One: Before the Age of Recorded Sound; title: 3
label: - The European Influence; title: 5
label: - Minstrelsy; title: 8
label: - The Chautauqua Movement; title: 10
label: - Black Music Threads; title: 14
label: Chapter Two 1890-1920: The Dawn of Recording; title: 15
label: - The Advent of Recorded Sound; title: 19
label: - Early Recording Groups; title: 25
label: - Confluential Themes; title: 28
label: - The 1910s; title: 38
label: Chapter Three 1920 to 1939: The Dawn of the Radio Era; title: 42
label: - The Influence of Instruments on the Sound of Vocal Groups; title: 44
label: - The Male Groups; title: 46
label: - The Female Groups; title: 50
label: - Vocal Groups and the Big Bands; title: 52
label: - Black Vocal Groups; title: 60
label: - Gospel and Spiritual Group Singing; title: 63
label: - Other Tributaries; title: 65
label: Chapter Four 1940 to 1950: War and the Music Industry: The Birth of Rock and Roll; title: 66
label: - The Economics of the Music Industry; title: 67
label: - The Effects of World War II; title: 69
label: - Technology; title: 70
label: - Tape Recorder; title: 70
label: - Soundies; title: 71
label: - Transcriptions; title: 72
label: - Record Charts; title: 72
label: - The Jukebox; title: 73
label: - Groups Whose Popularity Carried Over From the 1930s; title: 79
label: - Black Groups Making Their Mark in the Early 1940s; title: 82
label: - The White Pop Groups of the 1940s; title: 85
label: - Gospel; title: 87
label: - Black Groups of the Late 1940s; title: 90
label: - Things to Come; title: 95
label: Groupography; title: 278
label: Discography; title: 513
label: Technology and Vocal Groups; title: 515
label: Sheet Music and Vocal Groups; title: 528
label: Postcards and Vocal Groups; title: 545
label: Lists; title: 553
label: Bibliography; title: 558
label: Photo Credits; title: 559
label: Index