Gotham-Attucks Music Company

Gotham-Attucks Music Company Publishers. Black songwriters, while relatively few in number, were on the scene in Tin Pan Alley from the beginning. Major firms such as Joseph W. Stern and Company, Howley, Haviland, and Company, and M. Witmark and Sons published talented black composers and lyricists. The tearjerkers of Gussie Davis sold in the millions, as did the Coon Songs of the prolific Chris Smith , Ernest Hogan , Irving Jones , Willis Accooe, and Shepard Edmonds, and the show music of Tom…