| Description |
2 audio discs (154 min., 6 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Genres series ; 5th v. |
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Genres series ; 5th v.
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| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Credits |
Produced by Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey. |
| 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.) inserted in container. |
| Contents |
[Cd. 1] Unique Quartette. Mamma's black baby boy (1893) -- Standard Quartette. Keep movin (1894) -- Unique Quartette. Who broke the lock (ca. 1895) -- Oriole Quartette. Brother Michael, won't you hand down that rope (ca. 1895) -- Cousins and DeMoss. Poor mourner (1898) ; Who broke the lock (1898) -- Dinwiddie Colored Quartet. Down on the old camp ground (1902) -- Polk Miller's Old South Quartette. Jerusalem mornin (1909) -- Fisk University Jubilee Quartet. Little David play on your harp ; Shout all over God's heaven (1909) -- Apollo Jubilee Quartette. Swing low sweet chariot ; Shout all over God's heaven (1912) -- Tuskegee Institute Singers. Good news (1914) -- Right Quintette. The rain song (1915) -- Four Harmony Kings. Goodnight Angeline (1921). |
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[Cd. 1, cont.] Charley Case. Experiences in the show business (1909) -- George W. Johnson. The whistling coon (1891) -- Louis Vasnier. Adam and Eve and de winter apple : excerpt (ca. 1893) -- George W. Johnson. The laughing song (ca. 1894-1898) -- Spencer, Williams and Quinn's Imperial Minstrels. Minstrel First Part, featuring The laughing song (ca. 1894) -- George W. Johnson. Listen to the mocking bird (1896) ; The laughing coon (ca. 1898) ; The whistling girl (ca. 1898-1899) -- Williams and Walker. My little Zulu babe (1901) -- George W. Johnson. Carving the duck (1903) -- Len Spencer & George W. Johnson. The merry mail man (1906) -- Bert Williams. Nobody (1906) -- Jack Johnson. My own story of the big fight : part 1 [spoken] (1910) -- Opal Cooper. Beans, beans (1917) -- Noble Sissle. Great camp meetin' day (1920). |
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[Cd. 2] Booker T. Washington. Atlanta Exposition speech (1908) -- Thomas Craig. Old Black Joe (1898) -- Carroll Clark. Old dog Tray (1910) -- Daisy Tapley & Carroll Clark. I surrender all (1910) -- Afro-American Folk Song Singers. Swing along (1914) ; The rain song (1914) -- Right Quintette. Exhortation (1915) -- Roland Hayes. Arioso from "Pagliacci" : Vesti la giubba [/ Mascagni] (1918) -- Harry T. Burleigh. Go down Moses (1919) -- Edward H.S. Boatner. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (1919) -- Florence Cole-Talbert. Villanelle (1919) -- R. Nathaniel Dett [piano]. Barcarolle : [from In the bottoms] (1919) -- Clarence Cameron White. Lament (1919). |
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[Cd. 2, cont.] Edward Sterling White. When de co'n pone's hot ; 'Possum (1913) -- Europe's Society Orchestra. Down home rag (1913) -- Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra. Bregeiro (Rio Brazilian maxixe) (1914) -- Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra. On the shore at Le-Lei-Wei (1916) -- Wilbur C. Sweatman. Down home rag (1916) -- Memphis Pickaninny Band. Some jazz blues (1917) -- Eubie Blake Trio. Sarah from Sahara (1917) -- Blake's Jazzone Orchestra. The jazz dance (1917) -- Wilbur C. Sweatman's Original Jazz Band. Ev'rybody's crazy bout the doggone blues but I'm happy (1918) -- Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry "Hell Fighter's" Band. Darktown Strutter's Ball (1919) -- Ford Dabney's Band. Camp meeting blues (1919) -- W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band. St Louis Blues (1922). |
| Awards |
49th Grammy Award winner, Best Historical Album. |
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49th Grammy Award nominee, Best Album Notes. |
| Language |
Vocal selections sung principally in English; track 8, disc 2 sung in Italian. |
| Subject |
Blues (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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Minstrel shows.
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Humorous songs.
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Vaudeville.
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Revues -- To 1921. -- Excerpts.
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Spirituals (Songs)
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Ragtime music.
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Jazz -- To 1921.
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Speeches, addresses, etc.
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Blues (Music) (OCoLC)fst00835056
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Humorous songs. (OCoLC)fst00963815
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Jazz. (OCoLC)fst00982165
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Minstrel shows. (OCoLC)fst01023491
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Music. (OCoLC)fst01030269
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Popular music. (OCoLC)fst01071422
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Ragtime music. (OCoLC)fst01088526
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Revues. (OCoLC)fst01096785
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Sound recording industry. (OCoLC)fst01127019
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Speeches, addresses, etc. (OCoLC)fst01129318
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Spirituals (Songs) (OCoLC)fst01130204
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Vaudeville. (OCoLC)fst01164609
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
To 1921
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| Genre/Form |
Gospel music. (OCoLC)fst01726628
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Ragtime music. (OCoLC)fst01920314
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Gospel music.
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Ragtime music.
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| Added Author |
Brooks, Tim, writer of accompanying materials.
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Giovannoni, David, writer of accompanying materials.
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Martin, Richard, producer, writer of accompanying materials.
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Hennessey, Meagan, producer, writer of accompanying materials.
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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. |
777215109025 |
| Music No. |
Arch 1005 Archeophone |
