Out of sight : the rise of African American popular music, 1889-1895 / Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbott, Lynn, 1946-

Contributor:

Seroff, Doug.

Series:

American made music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African Americans--Music.

Popular music--United States--To 1901--History and criticism.

Popular music.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvii, 510 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2002]

Contents:

Frederick J. Loudin's Fisk Jubilee Singers and Their Australasian Auditors, 1886-1889 3

"Same"

The Maori and the Fisk Jubilee Singers 12

Australasian Music Appreciation 13

Minstrelsy and Loudin's Fisk Jubilee Singers 19

The Slippery Slope of Variety and Comedy 21

Mean Judge Williams 24

A "Black Patti" for the Ages: The Tennessee Jubilee Singers and Matilda Sissieretta Jones, 1889-1891 27

Other "Colored Pattis" and "Queens of Song," 1889 40

Other Jubilee Singers, 1889 42

Rev. Marshall W. Taylor 45

Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1889 47

The Minstrel Profession 60

Charles B. Hicks Abroad, 1889-1895 60

McCabe and Young's Minstrels, 1889-1892 65

Loudin's Fisk Jubilee Singers Come Home 73

Jubilee Singers on the Home Front, 1890 86

"A Woman with a Mission": Madame Marie Selika, 1890 89

Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1890 91

African American Minstrel Companies in the South 105

Richards and Pringle's Original Georgia Minstrels and Billy Kersands, 1889-1895 106

Cleveland's Colored Minstrels, Season of 1890-1891 110

Mahara's Minstrels, 1892-1895 115

The Legend of Orpheus McAdoo, 1890-1900 119

New Departures in African American Minstrelsy 145

William Foote's Afro-American Specialty Company 146

Sam T. Jack's Creole Burlesque Company 151

Compromises in Jubilee Singing: Thearle's Nashville Students, Wright's Nashville Students, and the Canadian Jubilee Singers 170

The Nashville Students 170

The Canadian Jubilee Singers 176

Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1891 177

The Texarkana Minstrel Company and the Jefferson Davis Monument Fund: "The Thing Is Unnatural" 198

Two Southern Brass Bands in New York City: Becker's Brass Band from Kentucky and the Onward Brass Band from Louisiana 200

"Rags" in Tennesseetown, 1891 201

Cake Walks in Context 205

Toward a Black National Anthem: "John Brown's Body" 211

"Colored Pattis" and "Queens of Song," 1892 214

Lizzie Pugh Dugan: "God Never Gave a Human a More Beautiful Voice" 218

Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1892 220

Barber-Musicians 244

Mandolin Clubs 247

W. P. Dabney 251

"Monarchs of the Light Guitar" 254

"A Model of Community Service": John W. Johnson and the Detroit City Band 255

The Excelsior Reed and Brass Band of Cleveland, Ohio 262

Benjamin L. Shook: A Community-Based Musician 265

The Dvorak Statement

"As Great as a Beethoven Theme" 273

Black Music in the White City: African Americans and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition 276

Colored Folks Day 279

The Midway Plaisance and the Dahomean Village 284

Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citation, 1893 296

"Folk-Lore and Ethnology," "Coonjine" and "Hully-Gully" 308

The "African Prince" Phenomenon, 1891-1895 312

Prof. Tobe Brown: "Terpsichorean Soiree" 315

Blind Boone: "Clear out of Sight" 318

"Black and White" Minstrelsy 325

"Darkest America": Al G. Field's Real Negro Minstrels 331

Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1894 335

A Tour of Conquest and Melody: Prof. W. H. Council and the Alabama State Normal School Quartette 351

That Barbershop Chord 357

Quartets to the Fore: The South Before the War Company and Its Plantation Pretenders, 1892-1895 360

A Low and Narrow Pathway of Opportunity in the Circus Sideshow "Colored Annex," 1891-1895 373

Dime Museums 380

"Black America" 391

Brass Bands in Kansas 395

"Kid Bands" in Kansas: The John Brown Juvenile Band and N. Clark Smith's Pickaninny Band 403

"In Old Kentucky" 406

"The Fake and His Orphans": Sherwood's Youth Missionary Band, 1889-1895 409

Selected, Annotated Chronology of Music-Related Citations, 1895 419

From the Criterion Quartet to "In Old Tennessee": The Rise of Ernest Hogan, 1889-1895 433

The Black Patti Troubadours and Madame C. C. Smith, "the Patti of Topeka" 438

The Whitman Sisters 440

"A Little 'Ragging'": The Emergence of Ragtime in the Land of John Brown 443

Preserving the Spiritual Legacy: The Last Days of Frederick J. Loudin 455

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-484) and index.

ISBN:

1578064996

OCLC:

49859947