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Out of sight : the rise of African American popular music, 1889-1895 /
A landmark study, based on thousands of music-related references mined by the authors from a variety of contemporaneous sources, especially African American community newspapers, Out of Sight examines musical personalities, issues, and events in context. It confronts the inescapable marketplace conc...
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University Press of Mississippi,
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. 1889
- Frederick J. Loudin's Fisk Jubilee Singers and Their Australian Auditors, 1886-1889
- "Same"-The Maori and the Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Australasian Music Appreciation
- Minstrelsy and Loudin's Fisk Jubilee Singers
- The Slipper Slope of Variety and Comedy
- Mean Judge Williams
- 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 Chronolgy of Music-Related Citations, 1889
- The Minstrel Profession
- Charles B. Hicks Abroad, 1889-1895
- McCabe and Young's Minstrels, 1889-1892
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 3. 1891
- New Departures in African American Minstrelsy
- William Foote's Afro-American Specialty Company
- Sam T. Jack's Creole Burlesque Company
- Compromises in Jubilee Singing: Thearle's Nashville Students, Wright's Nashville Students, and the Canadian Jubilee Singers
- The Nashville Students
- 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
- Chapter 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 Chronolgy of Music-Related Citations, 1892
- Barber-Musicians
- Mandolin Clubs
- W.P. Dabney
- "Monarchs of the Light Guitar"
- "A Model of Community Service": Jown W. Johnson and the Detroit City Band
- The Excelsior Reed and Brass Band of Cleveland, Ohio
- Benjamin L. Shook: A Community-Based Musician
- Chapter 5. 1893
- The Dvorak Statement-"As Great as a Beethoven Theme"
- Black Music in the White City: African Americans and the 1893 World's Columbain Exposition
- Colored Folks Day
- The Midway Plaisance and the Dahomean Village
- Conclusion
- 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"
- Chapter 6. 1894
- "Black and White" Mistrelsy
- "Darkest America": Al G. Field's Real N- Minstrels
- Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations
- 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," 1891-1891
- Dime Museums
- Chapter 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 Ptti 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
- Appendix 1: Repertoire of the Tennessee Jubilee Singers, 1888-1889
- Appendix 2: Personnel Listings of Orpheus M. McAdoo's and M.B. Curtis's Troupes in Australia, 1899-1900
- Appendix 3: Repertoire of McAdoo's Virginia Concert Company and Jubilee Singers, 1892-1893
- Appendix 4: Roster of the Detroit City Band, 1891-1892
- Notes
- Index.
- Appendix 1
- Repertoire of the Tennessee Jubilee Singers, 1888-1889
- 463
- Appendix 2
- Personnel Listings of Orpheus M. McAdoo's and M.B. Curtis's Troupes in Australia, 1899-1900
- 463
- Appendix 3
- Repertoire of McAdoo's Virginia Concert Company and Jubilee Singers, 1892-1893
- 464
- Appendix 4
- Roster of the Detroit City Band, 1891-1892
- 465.