Biographies of the first African-American recording stars, and how they succeeded against tremendous odds.
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CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed?PART ONE: George W. Johnson, the First Black Recording Artist1. The Early Years2. Talking Machines!3. The Trial of George W. JohnsonPART TWO: Black Recording Artists, 1890-994. The Unique Quartette5. Louis "Bebe" Vasnier: Recording in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans6. The Standard Quartette and South before the War7. The Kentucky Jubilee Singers8. Bert Williams and George Walker9. Cousins and DeMoss10. Thomas CraigPART THREE: Black Recording Artists, 1900-190911. The Dinwiddie Quartet12. Carroll Clark13. Charley Case: Passing for White?14. The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Popularization of Negro Spiriituals15. Polk Miller and His Old South QuartettePART FOUR: Black Recording Artists, 1920-1516. Jack Johnson17. Daisy Tapley18. Apollo Jubilee Quartette19. Edward Sterling Wright and the Poery of Paul Laurence Dunbar20. James Reese Europe21. Will Marion Cook and the Afro-American Folk Song Singers22. Dan Kildare and Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra23. The Tuskegee Institute Singers24. The Right QuintettePART FIVE: Black Recording Artists, 1916-1925. Wilbur C. Sweatman: Disrespecting Wilbur26. Opal D. Cooper27. Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake28. Ford T. Dabney: Syncopation over Broadway29. W. C. Handy30. Roland Hayes31. The Four Harmony Kings32. Broome Special Phonograph Records33. Edward H. Boatner34. Harry T. Burleigh35. Florence Cole-Talbert36. R. Nathaniel Dett37. Clarence Cameron WhitePART SIX: Other Early Recordings38. Miscellaneous RecordingsAppendix: Caribbean and South American RecordingsNotesSelect CD DiscographyBibliographyIndex
