Author: William DawsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Interview with William Dawson
Author: William DawsonOral History Interview with William Dawson
Author: Publisher:
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Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
An interview of William Dawson conducted 1990 April 11-23, by Betty Blum, for the Archives of American Art.
William Levi Dawson
Author: Mark Hugh MalonePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149684484X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
William Levi Dawson (1899–1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger, conductor, and professor of music. In William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator, Mark Hugh Malone tells the fascinating tale of Dawson’s early life, quest for education, rise to success at the Tuskegee Institute, achievement of national notoriety as a composer, and retirement years spent conducting choirs throughout the US and world. From his days as a student at Tuskegee in the final years of Booker T. Washington’s presidency, Dawson continually pursued education in music, despite racial barriers to college admission. Returning to Tuskegee later in life, he became director of the School of Music. Under his direction, the Tuskegee Choir achieved national recognition by singing at Radio City Music Hall, presenting concerts for Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and performing on nationwide radio and television broadcasts. Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, only the second extended musical work to be written by an African American, was premiered by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra in both Philadelphia and New York City. Dawson’s arrangements of spirituals, the original folk music of African Americans enslaved in America during the antebellum period, quickly became highly sought-after choral works. This biographical account of Dawson's life is narrated with a generous sprinkling of his personal memories and photographs.
Selections from the Correspondence of William Dawson
Author: William DawsonWilliam L. Dawson
Author: Gwynne Kuhner BrownPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252047141
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
William L. Dawson is recognized for his genre-defining choral spirituals and for his Negro Folk Symphony, a masterpiece enjoying a twenty-first-century renaissance. Gwynne Kuhner Brown’s engaging and tirelessly researched biography reintroduces a musical leader whose legacy is more important today than ever. Born in 1899, Dawson studied at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He worked as a church, jazz, and orchestral musician in Kansas City and Chicago in the 1920s while continuing his education as a composer. He then joined the Tuskegee faculty, where for 25 years he led the Tuskegee Institute Choir to national prominence through performances of spirituals at the opening of Radio City Music Hall, on radio and television, and at the White House. The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski premiered Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony in 1934. Engaging and long overdue, William L. Dawson celebrates a pioneering Black composer whose contributions to African American music, history, and education inspire performers and audiences to this day.
William L. Dawson and the Limits of Black Electoral Leadership
Author: Christopher ManningPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Congressman William Dawson served Chicago's Black community during the political awakening that culminated in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. His career reflects trends of the era: shifting party alliances, a growing Black presence in national politics, and changing tactics in the struggle for equality and civil rights"--Provided by publisher.
Memoir of Sir J. William Dawson
Author: Frank Dawson AdamsMemoirs of William A. Dawson
Author: William Alexander DawsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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A Misplaced Massacre
Author: Ari KelmanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
On November 29, 1864, over 150 Native Americans, mostly women, children, and elderly, were slaughtered in one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. Kelman examines how generations of Americans have struggled with the question of whether the nation’s crimes, as well as its achievements, should be memorialized.
William Dawson
Author: Annie E. KeelingPublisher:
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description