Popular American Recording Pioneers (winner of the 2001 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research) covers important musicians who made popular records from 1895 until 1925. You will explore a compilation of facts on these musicians and their records that were scattered in hundreds of record catalogs, trade journals, newspaper clippings, hobbyist magazines, and other sources. Many of the sources used are so rare that only one known copy even exists. An ideal music ...
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Popular American Recording Pioneers (winner of the 2001 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research) covers important musicians who made popular records from 1895 until 1925. You will explore a compilation of facts on these musicians and their records that were scattered in hundreds of record catalogs, trade journals, newspaper clippings, hobbyist magazines, and other sources. Many of the sources used are so rare that only one known copy even exists. An ideal music history reference, Popular American Recording Pioneers is also for collectors of old phonographs, 78s, and cylinders. Some of the artists you will learn about include Billy Murray, Collins & Harlan, and Ada Jones.
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