The Sound of Us: Black Music That Moved the World — Interactive Edition

The Sound of Us: Black Music That Moved the World by Carlos L. Young Sr. — Interactive Edition. Volume 9 of the Left Out of the History Books series (The Digital Black Voice).

Every American sound has a Black root system. This volume follows 57 musicians, labels, and turning points in chronological order: the Fisk Jubilee Singers singing a university into survival; Scott Joplin and Black Swan Records; Bessie Smith — with the flood-song myth corrected against the record; Thomas Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson founding modern gospel; Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, and Coltrane remaking the music four times over; the rock-and-roll credit fights (Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog" economics told plainly); Sam Cooke building SAR Records; Motown and Stax as rival factories; and August 11, 1973 in the Bronx, the documented night hip-hop starts. "First" claims are printed as the disputes they are, with no winner declared.

Interactive Edition: 57 profiles, timeline, search, read-aloud, bookmarks, 10-question quiz.