Out of Sight: the Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895. - book review

Black Issues Book Review, May-June, 2003 by Angela Dodson

by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff (University Press of Mississippi, February 2003, $75.00, ISBN 1-578-06499-6), looks at musical personalities, issues and events of this formative musical era. The cover art calls the book "An Illustrated History of Goings-On of Late-Nineteenth Century Black Musicians, Performers and Entertainers, featuring articles and biographic descriptions of dozens of Personalities and Organization. Includes Comprehensive and Descriptive Articles about Cake Walks, Brass Bands Jubilee Singing...." The cover alone is a collectible, and the book is a veritable scrapbook of a fascinating period.

--Angela Dodson is executive editor of Black Issues Book Review.