Dictionary of Afro-American performers
78 rpm and cylinder recordings of opera, choral music, and song, c1900-1949
78 rpm and cylinder recordings of opera, choral music, and song, c1900-1949
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| Anderson, Marian (b. 1897 d. 1993) | accordion, chanteur |
| Bland, James Allen (b. 1854 d. 1911) | minstrel show musician, professor |
| Bledsoe, Jules (b. 1898 d. 1943) | cast, singer |
| Boatner, Edward Hammond (b. 1898 d. 1981) | composer |
| Bonds, Margaret (Allison) (b. 1913 d. 1972) | composer, piano |
| Boxill, Carlton (b. 1896 a. 1920-1930s) | tenor |
| Brice, Carol (Lovette Hawkins) (b. 1918 d. 1985) | cast, contralto |
| Brown, Anita Patti (d. 1950) | singer |
| Brown, Anne (b. 1915) | cast, interprete |
| Brown, Lawrence Benjamin (b. 1893 d. 1972) | composer, piano |
| Burleigh, Henry Thacker (b. 1866 d. 1949) | composer, singer |
| Clark, Carroll (b. 1880 d. 1933) | baritone |
| Cole-Talbert, Florence (b. 1890 d. 1961) | soprano |
| Cook, Will Marion (b. 1869 d. 1944) | composer, director |
| Davis, Ellabelle (b. 1907 d. 1960) | soprano |
| Davis, Gussie Lord (b. 1863 d. 1899) | songwriter |
| Dawson, William Levi (b. 1899 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| De Paur, Leonard Etienne (b. 1915) | composer, choral director |
| Delmore, Harry (a. 1910-1930) | tenor |
| Dett, Robert Nathaniel (Farbiger) (b. 1882 d. 1943) | composer, teacher |
| Dobbs, Mattiwalda (b. 1925) | soprano, vocals |
| Dowdy, Helen (d. 1971) | cast, singer |
| Duncan, Todd [Robert Todd] (b. 1903) | baritone, cast |
| Gaines, J. Arthur (b. 1890) | tenor |
| Garnes, Antoinette Elizabeth (b. 1887 d. 1938) | soprano |
| Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1819 d. 1876) | cast, second alto |
| Harreld, Kemper (b. 1884 d. 1972) | violin, music educator |
| Hayes, Roland (b. 1887 d. 1976) | tenor, vocals |
| Holland, Charles (b. 1908 d. 1987) | producer, sanger |
| Hughes, Revella E. (b. 1895 d. 1987) | soprano, instrumentalist |
| Hunter, Nell Pierce (b. 1889) | soprano |
| Jessye, Eva Alberta (b. 1895 d. 1992) | ass. al cori, choir conductor |
| Johnson, Hall (b. 1888 d. 1970) | choir, choral director |
| Johnson, J. Rosamond [John Rosamund] (b. 1873 d. 1954) | composer, singer |
| Johnson, James Weldon (b. 1871 d. 1938) | composer, lyricist |
| Lawrence, William (b. 1895 d. 1981) | accompanist, singer |
| Love, Hermione Hortense (b. 1910) | soprano |
| Matthews, Edward (b. 1907 d. 1954) | baritone |
| Matthews, Inez (b. 1917) | cast, mezzo-soprano |
| Maynor, Dorothy Leigh (b. 1910) | soprano, vocals |
| Myers, James Andrew (b. 1878 d. 1928) | tenor, reader |
| Nickerson, Camille Lucie (b. 1888 d. 1982) | piano, organ |
| Pace, Harry H. (b. 1884 d. 1943) | insurance executive, music publisher |
| Payne, John (b. 1872 d. 1950s) | choir master |
| Price, Florence Beatrice (b. 1888 d. 1953) | composer, arranger |
| Reavis, Hattie King (a. 1920s-1930s) | soprano |
| Richardson, Inez M. (a. 1920s) | soprano, vocals |
| Robeson, Paul (b. 1898 d. 1976) | bass-baritone, cast |
| Smith, Muriel (b. 1923 d. 1985) | actress, theater singer |
| Spencer, Kenneth Lee (b. 1911 d. 1964) | bass, guitar |
| Still, Pierre (b. 1914) | songwriter |
| Still, William Grant (b. 1895 d. 1978) | arranger, composer |
| Swanson, Howard (b. 1907 d. 1978) | composer |
| Tapley, Daisy (b. 1870 d. 1925) | contralto |
| Thigpen, Helen (a. 1940s-1950s) | interprete, soprano |
| Warfield, William (Caesar) (b. 1920) | baritone, bass-baritone |
| Weir, Felix Fowler (b. 1884 d. 1978) | violin |
| White, Clarence Cameron (b. 1880 d. 1960) | composer, violin |
| Williams, Camilla Ella (b. 1922) | Sanger, soprano |
| Winters, Lawrence (b. 1915 d. 1965) | baritone, cast |
| Work, Frederick Jerome (b. 1880 d. 1942) | composer, scholar |
| Work, John Wesley (b. 1873 d. 1925) | composer, tenor |