Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments Authors' Note Prologue: Before Pop
• Chapter 1 : In the Evening by the Moonlight The Minstrel Era and the Beginnings of Tin Pan Alley James A. Bland Gussie L. Davis
• Chapter 2 : Stay in Your Own Back Yard Black Songwriters of the Coon Song Era Irving Jones Ernest Hogan Bert Williams
• Chapter 3 : Tell Me, Dusky Maiden The First Black Composers on Broadway Will Marion Cook Bob Cole and J. Rosamond Johnson
• Chapter 4 : Business is Business with Me The First Black Publishers of Popular Music Shep Edmonds Cecil Mack
• Chapter 5 : Livin High (Sometimes) Black Songwriters of the Teens and Twenties Chris Smith Shelton Brooks James Reese Europe Spencer Williams Maceo Pinkard Jo Trent Andy Razaf
• Chapter 6 : Aunt Hagar's Children The Black Entrepreneurs of the Blues W. C. Handy Perry Bradford Clarence Williams J. Mayo Williams
• Chapter 7 : If You've Never Been Vamped by a Brown Skin Black Theatre Composers of the 1920's Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Henry Creamer and Turner Layton James P. Johnson Fats Waller Sources Select
• Bibliography
• Index of Song Titles General
• Index