The rise and fall of Paramount Records :: a great migration story, 1917-1932 /
"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 n...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| contents | Preface -- 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 |
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| spelling | Blackwood, Scott, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001034213 The rise and fall of Paramount Records : a great migration story, 1917-1932 / Scott Blackwood. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2023] 1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 07, 2023). Preface -- 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 Paramount (Sound recording label) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004079418 New York Recording Laboratories. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004079416 Wisconsin Chair Company. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004079415 New York Recording Laboratories fast Paramount (Sound recording label) fast Wisconsin Chair Company fast Sound recording industry Wisconsin History 20th century. African American sound recording executives and producers Wisconsin History 20th century. African American musicians Wisconsin History 20th century. African American singers Wisconsin History 20th century. Enregistrements sonores Industrie Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Musiciens noirs américains Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Chanteurs noirs américains Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Sound recording industry fast Wisconsin fast 1900-1999 fast Electronic books. History fast Print version: Blackwood, Scott. Rise and fall of Paramount Records Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2023 9780807179147 (DLC) 2022032166 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3419784 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Blackwood, Scott The rise and fall of Paramount Records : a great migration story, 1917-1932 / Preface -- 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 Paramount (Sound recording label) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004079418 New York Recording Laboratories. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004079416 Wisconsin Chair Company. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004079415 New York Recording Laboratories fast Paramount (Sound recording label) fast Wisconsin Chair Company fast Sound recording industry Wisconsin History 20th century. African American sound recording executives and producers Wisconsin History 20th century. African American musicians Wisconsin History 20th century. African American singers Wisconsin History 20th century. Enregistrements sonores Industrie Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Musiciens noirs américains Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Chanteurs noirs américains Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Sound recording industry fast |
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| title_full | The rise and fall of Paramount Records : a great migration story, 1917-1932 / Scott Blackwood. |
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| topic | Paramount (Sound recording label) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004079418 New York Recording Laboratories. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004079416 Wisconsin Chair Company. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004079415 New York Recording Laboratories fast Paramount (Sound recording label) fast Wisconsin Chair Company fast Sound recording industry Wisconsin History 20th century. African American sound recording executives and producers Wisconsin History 20th century. African American musicians Wisconsin History 20th century. African American singers Wisconsin History 20th century. Enregistrements sonores Industrie Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Musiciens noirs américains Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Chanteurs noirs américains Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Sound recording industry fast |
| topic_facet | Paramount (Sound recording label) New York Recording Laboratories. Wisconsin Chair Company. New York Recording Laboratories Wisconsin Chair Company Sound recording industry Wisconsin History 20th century. African American sound recording executives and producers Wisconsin History 20th century. African American musicians Wisconsin History 20th century. African American singers Wisconsin History 20th century. Enregistrements sonores Industrie Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Musiciens noirs américains Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Chanteurs noirs américains Wisconsin Histoire 20e siècle. Sound recording industry Wisconsin Electronic books. History |
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