Review: Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 by Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff; Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz by Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff; Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919 by Tim Brooks. Music in American Life; Lost Sounds: Blacks and

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Book Review| April 01 2009 Review: Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 by Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff; Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz by Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff; Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919 by Tim Brooks. Music in American Life; Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1922; Black People: Entertainers of African Descent in Europe and Germany by Rainer E. Lotz; Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe, edited by Neil A. Wynn Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895, by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. xviii, 510 pp.Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz, by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. viii, 461 pp.Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919, by Tim Brooks. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. x, 634 pp.Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1922. St. Joseph, IL: Archeophone Records, 2005. 2 compact discs.Black People: Entertainers of African Descent in Europe and Germany, by Rainer E. Lotz. Bonn: Birgit Lotz, 1997. 398 pp.; compact disc.Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe, edited by Neil A. Wynn. American Made Music. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. xii, 289 pp. Thomas L. Riis Thomas L. Riis THOMAS L. RIIS has been at the University of Colorado at Boulder as the Joseph Negler Professor of Music since 2002 and as Director of the American Music Research Center since 1992. His most recent book, published as part of the Yale Broadway Masters series, is entitled Frank Loesser. He served as a senior scholar, with a Fulbright Fellowship, at the University of Lüneburg (Germany) in 2005–6. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2009) 62 (1): 252–260. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2009.62.1.252 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Thomas L. Riis; Review: Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 by Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff; Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz by Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff; Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919 by Tim Brooks. Music in American Life; Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1922; Black People: Entertainers of African Descent in Europe and Germany by Rainer E. Lotz; Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe, edited by Neil A. Wynn. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2009; 62 (1): 252–260. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2009.62.1.252 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2009 by the American Musicological Society. All rights reserved.2009 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.