Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed? -- PART ONE: George W. Johnson, the First Black Recording Artist -- 1. The Early Years -- 2. Talking Machines! -- 3. The Trial of George W. Johnson -- PART TWO: Black Recording Artists, 1890-99 -- 5. Louis "Bebe" Vasnier: Recording in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans -- 4. The Unique Quartette -- 6. The Standard Quartette and South before the War -- 7. The Kentucky Jubilee Singers -- 8. Bert Williams and George Walker -- 9. Cousins and DeMoss -- 10. Thomas Craig -- PART THREE: Black Recording Artists, 1900-1909 -- 11. The Dinwiddie Quartet -- 12. Carroll Clark -- 13. Charley Case: Passing for White? -- 14. The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Popularization of Negro Spiriituals -- 15. Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette -- PART FOUR: Black Recording Artists, 1920-15 -- 16. Jack Johnson -- 17. Daisy Tapley -- 18. Apollo Jubilee Quartette -- 19. Edward Sterling Wright and the Poery of Paul Laurence Dunbar -- 20. James Reese Europe -- 21. Will Marion Cook and the Afro-American Folk Song Singers -- 22. Dan Kildare and Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra -- 23. The Tuskegee Institute Singers -- 24. The Right Quintette -- PART FIVE: Black Recording Artists, 1916-19 -- 25. Wilbur C. Sweatman: Disrespecting Wilbur -- 26. Opal D. Cooper -- 27. Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake -- 28. Ford T. Dabney: Syncopation over Broadway -- 29. W. C. Handy -- 30. Roland Hayes -- 31. The Four Harmony Kings -- 32. Broome Special Phonograph Records -- 33. Edward H. Boatner -- 34. Harry T. Burleigh -- 35. Florence Cole-Talbert -- 36. R. Nathaniel Dett -- 37. Clarence Cameron White -- PART SIX: Other Early Recordings -- 38. Miscellaneous Recordings -- Appendix: Caribbean and South American Recordings -- Notes -- Select CD Discography -- Bibliography.

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