Journal of the Society for American Music

Table of Contents - May 2011 - Volume 5, Issue 02  

As this article doesn't contain an abstract, the image below is necessary to enable the article to be indexed by certain search engines. The resolution of the full-text PDF is much higher than that shown here.

Book Review

Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850–1920. By Peter C. Muir. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.

Tim Brooksa1

a1 tbroo@aol.com

(Online publication April 14 2011)

Tim Brooks has been writing about the history of the recording industry and other media in various journals for the last forty years. His most recent book, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919 (2004), received the Irving Lowens Award. He is a past president of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Many of his writings are available at www.timbrooks.net.