A reproduction of the 1918 Complete Catalog of Columbia Records with a new introduction by Ross Bolton.What a gem this little book is! No where else can one find every record made by Columbia during this period, and this book has pictures, descriptions, and prices to boot. Over 500 pages organized by artist, song, Opera music, Classifieds, Educational and Novelty records. What is most amazing to see are the "famous" artists of the day (all female trumpet group?), as well as the different way Columbia sold different cultural acts.Due to its rarity, a missing leaf of pages have been substituted by the similar pages from the 1919 catalog. These replaced pages have been marked '1919 Substitute' inside the book.

A groundbreaking history of African Americans in the early recording industry, Lost Sounds examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range of black music and culture they preserved. Drawing on more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black recording artists and profiles forty audio pioneers. Brooks assesses the careers and recordings of George W. Johnson, Bert Williams, George Walker, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, W. C. Handy, James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman, Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, Booker T. Washington, and boxing champion Jack Johnson, plus a host of lesser-known voices. Many of these pioneers struggled to be heard in an era of rampant discrimination. Their stories detail the forces––black and white––that gradually allowed African Americans to enter the mainstream entertainment industry. Lost Sounds includes Brooks's selected discography of CD reissues and an appendix by Dick Spottswood describing early recordings by black artists in the Caribbean and South America.