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Title Music in Black American life, 1600-1945 : a University of Illinois Press anthology / compiled by Laurie Matheson ; introduced by Sandra Jean Graham
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (270 pages)
Series Music in American Life
Music in American life.
Contents Introduction / Sarah Jean Graham -- Toward a philosophy of black music scholarship / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. -- Backstage : "White folks do as they please, and the darkies do as they can" / Katrina Dyonne Thomp -- The origin and development of the black musical theater : a preliminary report / Eileen Southern -- Innovators, imitators, and a jubilee industry / Sandra Jean Graham -- Rural black string band music / Charles Wolfe -- Nashville washboard band : something out of nothing / Stephen Wade -- The blues tradition in St. Louis / Harriet Ottenheimer -- James Reese Europe and the prehistory of jazz / R. Reid Badger -- Before Louis : when Fletcher Henderson was the "Paul Whiteman of the race" / Jeffrey Magee -- Sweeping through the city : Thomas A. Dorsey and the Gospel Nexus (1932-1933) / Robert M. Marovich -- "My soul's been anchored in de Lord" and black satin clothes at the fair / Rae Linda Brown
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 15, 2022)
Subject African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
MUSIC / General
African Americans -- Music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Matheson, Laurie Christine, 1962- editor.
Graham, Sandra J. (Sandra Jean), writer of introduction, author.
Badger, Reid, author.
Brown, Rae Linda, 1953-2017, author.
Floyd, Samuel A., Jr., 1937-2016, author.
Magee, Jeffrey, 1961- author.
Marovich, Robert M., author.
Ottenheimer, Harriet, 1941- author.
Southern, Eileen, author.
Thompson, Katrina Dyonne, author.
ISBN 9780252053580
0252053583