| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 184 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
Prelude: Exhortation; 1 Boyhood; 2 From Oberlin to Berlin; 3 The Chicago World's Fair of 1893; 4 The National Conservatory and Beginning of Musical Career; 5 "Broadway, Here I Come!"; 6 In Dahomey; 7 The "Students" and the Stage; 8 Removing the "Minstrel Mask"; Photo gallery; 9 The Clef Club, Darkydom, and World War I; 10 The Southern Syncopated Orchestra; 11 "A Hell of a Life"; 12 A Composer's Legacy; Postlude: "Swing Along!"; Appendices; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Composer, conductor and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s. In this biography, Marva Griffin Carter writes about Cook's music, career and personality, drawing on both his unfinished autobiography and his wife Abbie's memoir |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cook, Will Marion
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| SUBJECT |
Cook, Will Marion fast |
| Subject |
Composers -- United States -- Biography
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African American composers -- Biography
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African American composers
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Composers
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press
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| LC no. |
2007020402 |
| ISBN |
9780199865796 |
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0199865795 |
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9780195108910 |
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0195108914 |
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9780198026853 |
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0198026854 |
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1281825840 |
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9781281825841 |
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9786611825843 |
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6611825843 |
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