“Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891–1922” has received this year’s Grammy award for Best Historical Album. Tim Brooks, David Giovannoni, Meagan Hennessey, and Richard Martin are the producers and authors of this critically-acclaimed CD from Archeophone Records .

Based on Tim Brooks’ award-winning book of the same name (University of Illinois Press, 2004), ‘Lost Sounds’ traces the contributions of African-American performers and public figures during a remarkably fervent yet relatively unexamined and often misunderstood period in American history. Brooks’ book introduced modern readers to forgotten entertainment pioneers such as George W. Johnson–a former slave who was the first black to make commercial records. Archeophone’s CD introduces us to their actual performances. These are the earliest recordings ever honored by the Recording Academy an the first ti recognize African Americans who recored at the dawn of the record industry, thus causing historians to reexamin the roots of 20th century American popular music.

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