| 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. |
| Abstract |
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, this book examines musical personalities, issues, and events in context. It confronts the inescapable marketplace concessions musicians made to the period's prevailing racist sentiment. It describes the worldwide travels of jubilee singing companies, the plight of the great black prima donnas, and the evolution of "authentic" African American minstrels. Generously reproducing newspapers and photographs, this book puts a face on musical activity in the tightly knit black communities of the day. Drawing on hard-to-access archival sources and song collections, the book is of crucial importance for understanding the roots of ragtime, blues, jazz, and gospel. Essential for comprehending the evolution and dissemination of African American popular music from 1900 to the present, this book paints a rich picture of musical variety, personalities, issues, and changes during the period that shaped American popular music and culture for the next hundred years. |
