Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919

by Tim Brooks

Book Overview

A groundbreaking history of African Americans in the early recording industry, Lost Sounds examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range of black music and culture they preserved.

Drawing on more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black recording artists and profiles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252028503
• ISBN13: 9780252028502
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 634 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.2" x 10.2"