Brown University

Bamboula: Black Music Before the Blues

Exhibit Highlights

Fisk Jubilee Singers
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Songs as Sung by the Black Patti Troubadours
I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls
Blind Boone Concert Company Programme
Blind Tom
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Buckley's Serenaders Parlor Entertainment
The Famous Hyers Sisters Combination, Assisted by the Only Colored Comedian, Sam Lucas, In the New Edition of Out of Bondage or From Slavery to Freedom
Blind Boone: His Early Life and His Achievements
Blind Boone: World Renown Pianist and Musical Genius
Dunbarm
Engraving of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
Slave Songs of the United States
Black Patti's Troubadours poster
Philadelphia Gray's Quick Step: From Berlini's Opera I Puritani, as Performed by Johnson's Brass Band
Philadelphia Gray's Quick Step
Horwitz & Bower's Beautiful Love Ballad: Because
Philadelphia Gray's Quick Step (p. 2)
Rachel Walker: The Creole Nightingale
Reve Charmant: Nocturne Pour le Piano
Reve Charmont: Nocturne Pour le Piano (p. 2)
Bratton's "Don't Ask Me to Forget"
University Singers of New Orleans, in Aid of Colored Orphans' Home of Louisiana
Philadelphia Gray's Quick Step