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• Real Ragtime: Disc Recordings From Its Heyday [view results]
• Before Radio: Comedy, Drama, and Sound Sketches, 1897-1923 [view results]
• Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot [view results]
• Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891-1922
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• Monarchs of Minstrelsy [view results]
• Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s [view results]

Labels and Innovations

• The Great War: An American Musical Fantasy
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Labels and Innovations

• The Pink Lambert: A Collection of the First Celluloid Cylinders [view results]
• The Complete Hit of the Week Volume 1
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• The Complete Hit of the Week Volume 2
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• The Complete Hit of the Week Volume 3
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Pioneers

• Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth: Together and Alone
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• Henry Burr, Anthology: The Original King of Pop [view results]
• Guido Deiro: Complete Recorded Works, Volume 1 [view results]
• Marion Harris: The Complete Victor Releases [view results]
• Irving Kaufman, Anthology: The Last Recording Pioneer [view results]
• Billy Murray and The Heidelberg Quintet: Floating Down the River [view results]
• Eddie Morton: The Sound of Vaudeville [view results]
• Billy Murray Anthology: The Denver Nightingale [view results]
• Arthur Pryor and His Band: Echoes from Asbury Park  [view results]
• Bert Williams: The Early Years, 1901-1909 [view results]
• Bert Williams: The Middle Years, 1910-1918 [view results]
• Bert Williams: His Final Releases, 1919-1922 [view results]
• Nat M. Wills: The Famous Tramp Comedian [view results]

Jazz, Dance and Blues

• The Benson Orchestra of Chicago, 1920-1921 [view results]
• Six Brown Brothers: Those Moaning Saxophones [view results]
• Art Hickman's Orchestra: The San Francisco Sound, Volume 1 [view results]
• Art Hickman's Orchestra: The San Francisco Sound, Volume 2 [view results]
• Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band: Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise [view results]
• "Ain't Gonna Settle Down": The Pioneering Blues of Mary Stafford and Edith Wilson
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The Phonographic Yearbook

• The 1890s, Volume 1: "Wipe Him Off the Land" [view results]
• The 1890s, Volume 2: "Wear Yer Bran New Gown" [view results]
• 1907: "Dear Old Golden Rule Days" [view results]
• 1908: "Take Me Out with the Crowd" [view results]
• 1912: "Waitin' on the Levee" [view results]
• 1913: "Come and See the Big Parade" [view results]
• 1915: "They'd Sooner Sleep on Thistles" [view results]
• 1916: "The Country Found Them Ready" [view results]
• 1920: "Even Water's Getting Weaker" [view results]
• 1921: "Make Believe and Smile" [view results]
• 1922: "An Angel's Voice I Hear" [view results]