Lost sounds
Subtitle: blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890-1919
By: Tim Brooks ; appendix of Caribbean and South American recordings by Dick Spottswood.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Urbana, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 634
Description: "The first in-depth history of the involvement of African Americans in the earliest years of recording, this book examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising role black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age."

"Applying more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black artists who recorded commercially in a wide range of genres and provides revealing biographies of some forty of these 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, as well as a host of lesser-known voices."--Jacket.