Bert Williams and George Walker: photograph slide show and gallery, 1896-1909

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See also the following relevant Songbook pages on 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: selected sheet music slide show and gallery, 1896-1908
• Aida Overton Walker slide show and gallery

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George Walker, Bert Williams, and Aida Overton Walker, date unknown

George Walker, Aida Overton Walker, and Bert Williams, In Dahomey, c. 1902-1903

Williams & Walker:

• Jass.com: Bert Williams & George Walker
• The Frogs: The Who, What, and Where of the Frogs (jass.com)
• Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America’s First Black Star by Camille F. Forbes (2008)
  • Chapter 2: The Williams and Walker Years, pp. 37-163
• History of African American Theatre, A  — by Errol G. Hill, James Vernon Hatch (2003) – Google eBooks limited preview
  • pp. 162ff in Chapter 5, “New vistas: plays, spectacles, musicals, and operas” by Errol G. Hill
• Williams, Walker and Walker section of the Schomburg Exhibit “Harlem 1900-1940, an African-American Community” (exhibitions.nypl.org/harlem)

George Walker biography:

• Wikipedia

On In Dahomey: Williams and Walker Company pioneers new territory for African-American theater:

• The Guide to Musical Theatre — synopses of In Dahomey and Dahomey (earlier version)).

• In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy — music by Will Marion Cook, lyrics by Paul Laurence Dunbar, book by Jesse A. Shipp; edition published in London by Keith, Prowse & Company Ltd., c. 1903 — The Google eBooks preview evidently includes the whole score, including lyrics, of the musical as “[p]roduced at the Shaftesbury Theatre May 16th 1903.” The script is not included (see the next link).
  • I only checked each page carefully to about halfway through and noticed no pages missing, though there are two extra copies each of pages 12 and 13, one of the page 13 copies partially obscured by a ruler, and one duplicate each of pages 60 and 61.

• The Music and Scripts of ‘In Dahomey’ — Will Marion Cook, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Jesse Shipp, edited by Thomas L. Riis (1996) — Google eBooks preview: Presently available in the preview are 1. a long introduction of about 50 pages) titled In Dahomey in Text and Performance, and 2. the first two acts (of three) of one of the extant versions of the script, by Jesse Shipp, preceded by an introduction by the editor, Riis.

• Rewriting the Body: Aida Overton Walker and the Social Formation of Cakewalking by David Krasner, published in Theatre Survey, Volume 37, Issue 02, November 1996, pp. 67-92 (abstract, Cambridge Journals Online)

• Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America’s First Black Star by Camille F. Forbes (2008)
  • Chapter 2: The Williams and Walker Years, p. 100ff.

• Bodies in Dissent by Daphne Brooks (2006), Chapter 4: Alien/Nation — Re-Imagining the Black Body (Politic) in Williams and Walker’s In Dahomey, pp. 207ff

• The Real Thing, essay by David Krasner, pp. 99ff of the book Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930, edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (2011)

• “In Dahomey” portraits photographed by Cavendish Morton, 1903 @ digital collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London (https://www.npg.org.uk)

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