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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBlackwood, Scott, _eauthor. _921660
245	1	4	_aThe rise and fall of Paramount Records : _ba great migration story, 1917-1932 / _cScott Blackwood.
264		1	_aBaton Rouge : _bLouisiana State University Press, _c[2023]
300			_a1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Founded in 1917, Paramount Records was but one of the home-grown record labels of the New York Recording Laboratories (NYRL), a subsidiary of a chair company in Wisconsin with operations near Lake Michigan. No outsized hopes were pinned to Paramount or its sister companies; its founders knew nothing of the music business, the records themselves were only to drive sales of expensive phonograph cabinets they had recently begun manufacturing. Lacking both the resources and the interest to compete for top talent, Paramount's earliest recordings were gained little foothold with the listening public. By 1922, on the threshold of bankruptcy, Paramount embarked on a new business plan that had recently proven successful for other record companies: selling the music of Black artists to Black audiences. Advertising in newspapers dedicated to Black readership and utilizing other strategies such as local talent scouts and sales agents in the South, unconventional distribution channels, an 'open door' recording policy, direct mail order and the eventual hiring of the first Black record executive in a white-owned record company, Paramount expanded its footprint and eventually garnered many of the biggest selling titles in the 'race records' era. By the time it ceased operations in 1932, NYRL had pressed and shipped hundreds of thousands of records, including more than 2,300 recordings of blues, gospel and jazz in its Paramount 'race' series alone, with a slate of performers including the likes of Louis Armstrong, Charley Patton, Ethel Waters, Son House, Fletcher Henderson, Skip James, Alberta Hunter, Blind Blake, King Oliver, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Johnny Dodds, Papa Charlie Jackson, and Jelly Roll Morton. In short, Paramount accidentally accomplished what others could not. On the one hand, Scott Blackwood's The Rise and Fall of Paramount is the story of happenstance. But it is also a tale about the sheer force of the Great Migration and the legacy of the music put down into the shellacked grooves of a 78 record: Black America finding its voice. It is the story the legacy of the Great Migration and how blues, jazz, and folk music transcended boundaries, and how this almost never happened. Blackwood brings to life these many moments-through creative nonfiction-and makes present and full-blooded what hadn't been brought to life before"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 07, 2023).
505	0		_aPreface -- Introduction: Out of the Anonymous Dark -- I. 1917-1927 -- 1. The Great Migration -- 2. The Black Metropolis -- 3. A Brief History of the Phonograph -- 4. Who by Fire: The Rise of Paramount -- 5. Holy Fools of the Record Business -- 6. A Brief History of Black Minstrelsy -- 7. Rise of the Blues Women -- 8. Mayo Williams: Impresario, Confidence Man, Champion of the Race -- 9. How to Make a Race Record -- 10. Electrically Recorded -- 11. Rise of the Jazz Masters -- 12. Dying Lights of Vaudeville: Papa Charlie Jackson and Ma Rainey -- 13. Blind Lemon Jefferson -- 14. Blind Blake -- II. 1928-1932 -- 15. Ghost Voices -- 16. Last Kind Words -- 17. Frolic -- 18. The Discoverers -- 19. The Time of the Preacher: Rise of Sacred Voices -- 20. Ghost in the Machine: Clarence Williams and the Rise of Swing -- 21. Grafton Sessions: Ridiculous to the Sublime -- 22. Feeding Them on Babe's Milk: Skip James and the Other -- 23. River of Earth: Old-Time Music -- 24. The Sense of an Ending
590			_aAdded to collection customer.56279.3
610	2	0	_aParamount (Sound recording label) _921661
610	2	0	_aNew York Recording Laboratories. _921662
610	2	0	_aWisconsin Chair Company. _921663
610	2	7	_aNew York Recording Laboratories _2fast _921662
610	2	7	_aParamount (Sound recording label) _2fast _921661
610	2	7	_aWisconsin Chair Company _2fast _921663
650		0	_aSound recording industry _zWisconsin _xHistory _y20th century. _921664
650		0	_aAfrican American sound recording executives and producers _zWisconsin _xHistory _y20th century. _921665
650		0	_aAfrican American musicians _zWisconsin _xHistory _y20th century. _921666
650		0	_aAfrican American singers _zWisconsin _xHistory _y20th century. _921667
650		6	_aEnregistrements sonores _xIndustrie _zWisconsin _xHistoire _y20e si�ecle. _921668
650		6	_aMusiciens noirs am�ericains _zWisconsin _xHistoire _y20e si�ecle. _921669
650		6	_aChanteurs noirs am�ericains _zWisconsin _xHistoire _y20e si�ecle. _921670
650		7	_aSound recording industry _2fast _921671
651		7	_aWisconsin _2fast _921672
648		7	_a1900-1999 _2fast
655		0	_aElectronic books. _93907
655		7	_aHistory _2fast _93689
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aBlackwood, Scott. _tRise and fall of Paramount Records _dBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2023 _z9780807179147 _w(DLC) 2022032166
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