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Out of sight : the rise of African American popular music, 1889-1895
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- Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
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- English
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2002]
- ©2002
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- xvii, 510 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781578064991, 9781417506996, 1417506997, 1578064996
- OCLC
- ocm49859947, ocm55153722
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-484) and index.
- Ch. 1. 1889 -- Frederick J. Loudin's Fisk Jubilee Singers and Their Australasian Auditors, 1886-1889 -- A "Black Patti" for the Ages: The Tennessee Jubilee Singers and Matilda Sissieretta Jones, 1889-1891 -- Other "Colored Pattis" and "Queens of Song," 1889 -- Other Jubilee Singers, 1889 -- Rev. Marshall W. Taylor -- Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1889 -- The Minstrel Profession -- Charles B. Hicks Abroad, 1889-1895 -- McCabe and Young's Minstrels, 1889-1892 -- Ch. 2. 1890 -- Loudin's Fisk Jubilee Singers Come Home -- Jubilee Singers on the Home Front, 1890 -- "A Woman with a Mission": Madame Marie Selika, 1890 -- Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1890 -- African American Minstrel Companies in the South -- Richards and Pringle's Original Georgia Minstrels and Billy Kersands, 1889-1895 -- Cleveland's Colored Minstrels, Season of 1890-1891 -- Mahara's Minstrels, 1892-1895 -- The Legend of Orpheus McAdoo, 1890-1900 -- Ch. 3. 1891 -- New Departures in African American Minstrelsy -- Compromises in Jubilee Singing: Thearle's Nashville Students, Wright's Nashville Students, and the Canadian Jubilee Singers -- Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1891 -- The Texarkana Minstrel Company and the Jefferson Davis Monument Fund: "The Thing Is Unnatural" -- Two Southern Brass Bands in New York City: Becker's Brass Band from Kentucky and the Onward Brass Band from Louisiana -- "Rags" in Tennesseetown, 1891 -- Ch. 4. 1892 -- Cake Walks in Context -- Toward a Black National Anthem: "John Brown's Body" -- "Colored Pattis" and "Queens of Song," 1892 -- Lizzie Pugh Dugan: "God Never Gave a Human a More Beautiful Voice" -- Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1892 -- Barber-Musicians -- Mandolin Clubs -- W. P. Dabney -- "Monarchs of the Light Guitar" -- "A Model of Community Service": John W. Johnson and the Detroit City Band -- The Excelsior Reed and Brass Band of Cleveland, Ohio -- Benjamin L. Shook: A Community-Based Musician -- Ch. 5. 1893 -- The Dvorak Statement - "As Great as a Beethoven Theme" -- Black Music in the White City: African Americans and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition -- Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1893 -- "Folk-Lore and Ethnology," "Coonjine" and "Hully-Gully" -- The "African Prince" Phenomenon, 1891-1895 -- Prof. Tobe Brown: "Terpsichorean Soiree" -- Blind Boone: "Clear out of Sight" -- Ch. 6. 1894 -- "Black and White" Minstrelsy -- "Darkest America": Al G. Field's Real Negro Minstrels -- Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1894 -- A Tour of Conquest and Melody: Prof. W. H. Councill and the Alabama State Normal School Quartette -- That Barbershop Chord -- Quartets to the Fore: The South Before the War Company and Its Plantation Pretenders, 1892-1895 -- A Low and Narrow Pathway of Opportunity in the Circus Sideshow "Colored Annex," 1891-1895 -- Dime Museums -- Ch. 7. 1895 -- "Black America" -- Brass Bands in Kansas -- "Kid Bands" in Kansas: The John Brown Juvenile Band and N. Clark Smith's Pickaninny Band -- "In Old Kentucky" -- "The Fake and His Orphans": Sherwood's Youth Missionary Band, 1889-1895 -- Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1895 -- From the Criterion Quartet to "In Old Tennessee": The Rise of Ernest Hogan, 1889-1895 -- The Black Patti Troubadours and Madame C. C. Smith, "the Patti of Topeka" -- The Whitman Sisters -- "A Little 'Ragging": The Emergence of Ragtime in the Land of John Brown -- Preserving the Spiritual Legacy: The Last Days of Frederick J. Loudin -- App. 1. Repertoire of the Tennessee Jubilee Singers, 1888-1889 -- App. 2. Personnel Listings of Orpheus M. McAdoo's and M. B. Curtis's Troupes in Australia, 1899-1900 -- App. 3. Repertoire of McAdoo's Virginia Concert Company and Jubilee Singers, 1892-1893 -- App. 4. Roster of the Detroit City Band, 1891-1892