Author: Will Marion CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Darktown Barbecue
Author: Will Marion CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Swing Along
Author: Marva CarterPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195108914
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
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.
Hunger Overcome?
Author: Andrew WarnesPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325620
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
African American writers have consistently drawn connections between hunger and illiteracy, and by extension between food and reading. This book investigates the juxtaposition of mulnutrition and spectacular food abundance as a key trope of African American writing.
Ragging it
Author: H. Loring WhitePublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595340423
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Ragging It takes the reader on a lively, historical journey back to the days of vaudeville, fancy women, amusement parks, lynch mobs, saloons, and cabarets--a time when the upbeat music of ragtime was a craze that permeated our culture. Author H. Loring White, a former history professor, focuses on the vastly contrasting biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Scott Joplin, while showcasing the uniqueness of ragtime--the first popular syncopated music of the masses. In 1900, times began to move more quickly. With citizens no longer isolated on farms, ragtime was eagerly accepted by the world's first generation of popular culture, which also reveled in cakewalks; coon songs; and animal dances, such as the Grizzly Bear, Turkey Trot, and Bunny Hug. White recounts true stories about show business, political events, the repression of African-Americans, the world's fairs, and the triumphs of technology. Although ragtime disappeared abruptly in just a few years with the emergence of jazz, White never lets you forget the vital role that ragtime played in the Progressive Era of American culture. With its new and vital interpretation of the Roosevelt era, he will take you back to a lively time in history when everyone was Ragging It!
Early Broadway Sheet Music
Author: Donald J. StubblebinePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786447052
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This work, a companion to the author's Broadway Sheet Music: A Comprehensive Listing of Published Music from Broadway and Other Stage Shows, 1918 through 1993 (McFarland 1996), provides information about all sheet music published (1843-1918) from all Broadway productions--plus music from local shows, minstrel shows, night club acts, vaudeville acts, touring companies, and shows on the road that never made it to Broadway--and all the major musicals from Chicago.
A Century of Musicals in Black and White
Author: Bernard L. Peterson Jr.Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313064547
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This comprehensive reference book provides succinct information on almost thirteen hundred musical stage works written and produced from the 1870s to the 1990s involving contributions by black librettists, lyricists, composers, musicians, producers, or performers or containing thematic materials relevant to the black experience. Organized alphabetically, they include tent and outdoor shows, vaudeville, operas and operettas, comedies, farces, spectacles, revues, cabaret and nightclub shows, children's musicals, skits, one-act musicals, one-person shows, and even a musical without songs. In addition to the hundreds of shows independently created, produced, and performed by black writers and theatrical artists, it presents hundreds more representing a collaboration of black and white talents. An appendix organizes the shows chronologically and highlights those that were most significant in the history of the black American musical stage. An extensive bibliography and indexes of names, songs, and subjects complete the work.
Aces
Author: Octavus Roy CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Just Before Jazz
Author: Thomas Laurence RiisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
All Music Guide to the Blues
Author: Vladimir BogdanovPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879307363
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Reviews and rates the best recordings of 8,900 blues artists in all styles.
Black and Blue
Author: Octavus Roy CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description