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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthors' NotePrologue: Before PopChapter 1: "In the Evening by the Moonlight"The Minstrel Era and the Beginnings of Tin Pan AlleyJames A. BlandGussie L. DavisChapter 2: "Stay in Your Own Back Yard"Black Songwriters of the Coon Song EraIrving JonesErnest HoganBert WilliamsChapter 3: "Tell Me, Dusky Maiden"The First Black Composers on BroadwayWill Marion CookBob Cole and J. Rosamond JohnsonChapter 4: Business is Business with MeThe First Black Publishers of Popular MusicShep EdmondsCecil MackChapter 5: Livin High (Sometimes)Black Songwriters of the Teens and TwentiesChris SmithShelton BrooksJames Reese EuropeSpencer WilliamsMaceo PinkardJo TrentAndy RazafChapter 6: Aunt Hagar's ChildrenThe Black Entrepreneurs of the BluesW. C. HandyPerry BradfordClarence WilliamsJ. Mayo WilliamsChapter 7: If You've Never Been Vamped by a Brown SkinBlack Theatre Composers of the 1920'sNoble Sissle and Eubie BlakeHenry Creamer and Turner LaytonJames P. JohnsonFats WallerSourcesSelect BibliographyIndex of Song TitlesGeneral Index