Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Polk Miller Stories, Sketches and Songs ... in "Old Times Down South."
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Polk Miller. Stories, Sketches and Songs. ...
Author: The Birth of the Banjo
Author: Bob CarlinPublisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"A professional banjo player, Joel Sweeney introduced mainstream America to a music (and musical instrument) which had its roots in the transplanted black culture of the southern slave. Beginning with the banjo's introduction to America and Great Britain, the book provides an overview of early banjo music. An appendix contains a performance chronology"--Note de l'éditeur.
Alumni Report
Author: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Alumni AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Who's who in the Lyceum
Author: Alfred Augustus WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lecturers
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Includes: A Brief history of the lyceum, by Anna L. Curtis, and: How to organize and manage a lyceum course, by Laurence Tom Kersey.
Polk Miller's "Old South" Quartette
Author: Second Baptist Church (Richmond, Va.). Young Men's SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Who's who in the lyceum
Author: Thinking Together
Author: Angela G. RayPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271081937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how people approached similar questions of learning and difference in the nineteenth century. In the open air, in homes, in public halls, and even in prisons, people pondered recurring issues: justice, equality, careers, entertainment, war and peace, life and death, heaven and hell, the role of education, and the nature of humanity itself. Paying special attention to the dynamics of race and gender in intellectual settings, the contributors to this volume consider how myriad groups and individuals—many of whom lived on the margins of society and had limited access to formal education—developed and deployed knowledge useful for public participation and public advocacy around these concerns. Essays examine examples such as the women and men who engaged lecture culture during the Civil War; Irish immigrants who gathered to assess their relationship to the politics and society of the New World; African American women and men who used music and theater to challenge the white gaze; and settler-colonists in Liberia who created forums for envisioning a new existence in Africa and their relationship to a U.S. homeland. Taken together, this interdisciplinary exploration shows how learning functioned not only as an instrument for public action but also as a way to forge meaningful ties with others and to affirm the value of an intellectual life. By highlighting people, places, and purposes that diversified public discourse, Thinking Together offers scholars across the humanities new insights and perspectives on how difference enhances the human project of thinking together.
Minutes of the Annual Convention
Author: United Daughters of the ConfederacyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Lost Sounds
Author: Tim BrooksPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252090632
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
A groundbreaking history of African Americans in the early recording industry, Lost Sounds examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range of black music and culture they preserved. Drawing on more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black recording artists and profiles forty audio pioneers. Brooks assesses the careers and recordings of George W. Johnson, Bert Williams, George Walker, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, W. C. Handy, James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman, Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, Booker T. Washington, and boxing champion Jack Johnson, plus a host of lesser-known voices. Many of these pioneers struggled to be heard in an era of rampant discrimination. Their stories detail the forces––black and white––that gradually allowed African Americans to enter the mainstream entertainment industry. Lost Sounds includes Brooks's selected discography of CD reissues and an appendix by Dick Spottswood describing early recordings by black artists in the Caribbean and South America.