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PROTOBILLY: THE MINSTREL AND TIN PAN ALLEY DNA OF COUNTRY MUSIC 1892-2017 This 3 CD reissue anthology is the first to track twentieth century American vernacular music of old time country, bluegrass, jazz and blues by tracing their beginnings in 19th century blackface minstrelsy and Tin Pan Alley. Country Music is a genre driven by songwriting and publishing. This fact alone has given opportunity for songs to be refashioned again and again showcasing stylistic as well as lyrical changes over the past 100 years. The foundation of the American popular songbook traces its beginnings to the Vaudeville, Circus, Minstrel, Music Hall and Theater stages of the mid-late 1800s. The songs spread throughout the country and world creating a new musical tapestry that included both black and white performers of all backgrounds. Their songs and styles are presented in this three CD anthology. By aligning performances from the earliest cylinder recordings with later 78 rpm, LP and CD versions, PROTOBILLY brings to life 81 historic recordings more than half never before reissued -- all brilliantly remastered by award winning engineer DOUG BENSON to vividly demonstrate the checkered and enormously powerful elasticity of American music. Produced by renowned recording music historians HENRY H. SAPOZNIK, DICK SPOTTSWOOD and DAVID GIOVANNONI, the set comes with 76 pages of song annotations, sheet music covers, photographs and period graphics, biographies and discographies by SAPOZNIK, SPOTTSWOOD and ''The American Songster,'' DOM FLEMMONS.