Review of Tim Brooks. 2004. Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press
The post-civil rights era gave rise to a surge in revisionist scholarship devoted to African American music, much of it inspired by Eileen Southern’s seminal Music of Black Americans ([1971] 1997). Southern and the scholars who followed in her wake restored lost musicians, lost images, lost words,...
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Columbia University Libraries
2006-04-01
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Series: | Current Musicology |
Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5073 |