Available in paperback for the first time this groundbreaking in depth history of the involvement of african americans in the early recording industry 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 x000b . Lost sounds blacks and the birth of the recording industry 1890 1919 music in american life ebook brooks tim amazonca kindle store. Lost sounds blacks and the birth of the recording industry 1890 1919 urbana and chicago university of illinois press reviewed by sandra jean graham the post civil rights era gave rise to a surge in revisionist scholarship de voted to african american music much of it inspired by eileen southerns seminal music of black americans 1971 1997 southern and the scholars who followed in . 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. Lost sounds blacks and the birth of the recording industry 1890 1919 responsibility tim brooks appendix of caribbean and south american recordings by dick spottswood imprint urbana university of illinois press c2004 physical description x 634 p ill 27 cm series music in american life online available online ebsco university press at the library archive of recorded sound