Golden Mystics of Old Time Music

For the Love of 78 rpm Records

World War I Era-Music

Hello! Brooke Anderson here, from northeast Ohio. All of my life I had a fascination with the music of the past and the stories of the forgotten, especially in the World War I era.  

Brooke Anderson

An Introduction

Hello, Brooke Anderson Here . . .

Brooke’s Complete Index

CATEGORIES

Articles

78 RPM Records

Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Brooke’s Ephemera

ARTICLES

The US Army At War:  Treating the Wounded

Music as Medicine

You Can Take it With You

Decca Portable Grammophone

Charles B. Barlow, Sect. 563

USAAS Italy

Nifty Nine Show Co. Violin

Elsie Janis-Sweetheart of the AEF

American Volunteers

in the

European War

78 RPM RECORDS

369th Hellfighters Band Pathé #22089

Original Dixieland Jass Band

Victor #18255

Parlophon Orchestra

Parlophone #433-34

Thaviu’s Concert Band 

Columbia Ethnic #E4467

Serbian Choral Society “Gusle”

Columbia Ethnic #E2935

One Record,

Two Stories

Victor #18465-A

ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND

IN 1917 AMERICA ENTERED WORLD WAR I TO THE STRAINS OF AN EMERGING NEW MUSIC–“JASS” OR “JAZZ”, AND THE BAND RESPONSIBLE FOR TRANSFORMING THE MUSICAL LANDSCAPE WAS THE ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND, A GROUP OF YOUNG WHITE NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS WHO BROUGHT THE SOUNDS OF THEIR HOMETOWN TO THE CITIES OF THE NORTH.

BROOKE’S EPHEMERA