| Description |
2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Genres series ; 5th v.
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Genres series ; 5th v.
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| Language |
Vocal selections sung principally in English; track 8, disc 2 sung in Italian. |
| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Note |
Companion discs to the book Lost Sounds by Tim Brooks, published by the University of Illinois Press. |
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Compact discs. |
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Originally recorded on acoustic cylinders & records, some as commercial issues & some private; discographical details included in Notes. |
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Program notes by Tim Brooks, David Giovannoni, Richard Martin & Meagan Hennessey, with illustrations & discographical details (60 p.) laid in container. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Mamma's black baby boy (1893) / Unique Quartette -- Keep movin' (1894) / Standard Quartette -- Who broke the lock (ca. 1895) / Unique Quartette -- Brother Michael, won't you hand down that rope (ca. 1895) / Oriole Quartette -- Poor mourner (1898) ; Who broke the lock (1898) / Cousins and DeMoss -- Down on the old camp ground (1902) / Dinwiddie Colored Quartet -- Jerusalem mornin' (1909) / Polk Miller's Old South Quartette -- Little David play on your harp ; Shout all over God's heaven (1909) / Fisk University Jubilee Quartet -- Swing low sweet chariot ; Shout all over God's heaven (1912) / Apollo Jubilee Quartette -- Good news (1914) / Tuskegee Institute Singers -- The rain song (1915) / Right Quintette -- Goodnight Angeline (1921) / Four Harmony Kings -- |
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Experiences in the show business (1909) / Charley Case -- The whistling coon (1891) / George W. Johnson -- Adam and Eve and de winter apple : excerpt (ca. 1893) / Louis Vasnier -- The laughing song (ca. 1894-1898) / George W. Johnson -- Minstrel First Part, featuring The laughing song (ca. 1894) / Spencer, Williams and Quinn's Imperial Minstrels -- Listen to the mocking bird (1896) ; The laughing coon (ca. 1898) ; The whistling girl (ca. 1898-1899) / George W. Johnson -- My little Zulu babe (1901) / Williams and Walker -- Carving the duck (1903) / George W. Johnson -- The merry mail man (1906) / Len Spencer & George W. Johnson -- Nobody (1906) / Bert Williams -- My own story of the big fight : part 1 [spoken] (1910) / Jack Johnson -- Beans, beans (1917) / Opal Cooper -- Great camp meetin' day (1920) / Noble Sissle -- -- |
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Disc 2. Atlanta Exposition speech (1908) / Booker T. Washington -- Old Black Joe (1898) / Thomas Craig -- Old dog Tray (1910) / Carroll Clark -- I surrender all (1910) / Daisy Tapley & Carroll Clark -- Swing along (1914) ; The rain song (1914) / Afro-American Folk Song Singers -- Exhortation (1915) / Right Quintette -- Arioso from "Pagliacci" : Vesti la giubba / Leoncavallo ; sung by] Roland Hayes (1918) -- Go down Moses (1919) / Harry T. Burleigh -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (1919) / Edward H.S. Boatner -- Villanelle (1919) / [Eva Dell'Acqua ; sung by] Florence Cole-Talbert -- In the bottoms. Barcarolle / R. Nathaniel Dett, piano -- Lament (1919) / Clarence Cameron White -- |
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When de co'n pone's hot ; 'Possum (1913) / Edward Sterling White -- Down home rag (1913) / Europe's Society Orchestra -- Bregeiro (Rio Brazilian maxixe) (1914) / Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra -- On the shore at Le-Lei-Wei (1916) / Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra -- Down home rag (1916) / Wilbur C. Sweatman -- Some jazz blues (1917) / Memphis Pickaninny Band -- Sarah from Sahara (1917) / Eubie Blake Trio -- The jazz dance (1917) / Blake's Jazzone Orchestra -- Ev'rybody's crazy 'bout the doggone blues but I'm happy (1918) / Wilbur C. Sweatman's Original Jazz Band -- Darktown Strutter's Ball (1919) / Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry "Hell Fighter's" Band -- Camp meeting blues (1919) / Ford Dabney's Band -- St. Louis Blues (1922) / W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Music.
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Sound recording industry -- History.
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Music -- United States.
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Popular music -- United States -- To 1901.
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Popular music -- United States -- 1901-1910.
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Popular music -- United States -- 1911-1920.
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| Genre/Form |
Minstrel shows.
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Humorous songs.
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| Subject |
Vaudeville.
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Revues -- Excerpts -- To 1921.
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| Genre/Form |
Spirituals (Songs)
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Ragtime music.
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| Subject |
Jazz -- To 1921.
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| Genre/Form |
Speeches, addresses, etc.
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| Added Author |
Brooks, Tim.
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Giovannoni, David.
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Martin, Richard.
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Hennessey, Meagan.
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Johnson, George W., 1846-approximately 1910. Performer.
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Brooks, Tim.
Lost sounds.
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| Added Title |
Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891-1922 |
| Standard No. |
7721510902 |
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777215109025 |
| Music No. |
Arch 1005 Archeophone |
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