African-American musical theater, 1896-1926: feature pages and galleries

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African-American musical theater, 1896-1926 — feature pages and galleries

Bert Williams, George Walker, and Aida Overton Walker:

• Bert Williams & George Walker: selections from their first Victor recording session, 11 October 1901
• Bert Williams and George Walker slide show and gallery, 1896-1909
• Bert Williams and George Walker: selected sheet music slide show and gallery, 1896-1908 
• Aida Overton Walker slide show and gallery

Bert Williams solo:

• Bert Williams: selected recordings 1910-1920 + photo and sheet music galleries
• Bert Williams photo gallery, 1910-1920
• Bert Williams: selected sheet music and record label gallery, 1910-1920

Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s:

• Shuffle Along (1921) and the return of African-American musical theater to Broadway during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s
• Shuffle Along (1921) gallery
• Blackbirds (1926): early recordings of selected songs in the revue
• Florence Mills slide show and gallery

Cakewalking babies from home:

• Rudy and Fredy Walker feature page index and slide show
  • Rudy and Fredy Walker, c.1903 French S.I.P. postcard series #142, “Le Cake-Walk” – includes slide show and gallery of a complete set of the ten postcards in the series, and a comment exchange with the author of the only biography of this sibling dance team that I’ve found, Dr. Rainer E. Lotz
  • Carl Kauba: three bronze sculptures modeled on items in c.1903 French S.I.P. postcard series #142, featuring cakewalk dancers Rudy and Fredy Walker
  • Le Cake-Walk au Nouveau Cirque (1903) by Louis Lumière: five short films of cakewalk dance teams performing on stage, including one featuring Rudy and Fredy Walker
  • Rudy and Fredy Walker demonstrate “Le Trans-Atlantic,” 1904 postcard series, gallery

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Background (external links)

History of African-American musical theater, 1830s-1920:

• The Development of an African-American Musical Theatre 1865-1910 — from the American Memory collections of The Library of Congress website
• Jass.com: 1895-1920 African-American Music
• Jass.com: 1895-1920 African-American Popular Music Composers (14 feature pages)
• African American musical theater
• vaudeville
• minstrel show
• Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America by Karen Sotiropoulos (2006)
• liner notes from 2002 a disc reissue of the 1976 LP Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along, New World Records NW 260 — Overview of the creation of Shuffle Along, 1921, with historical background

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