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Author: Scott E. Brown Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press and the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 532
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A biography and discography of James P. Johnson, whose musical career spanned the ragtime era.
Author: Scott E. Brown Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press and the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 532
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A biography and discography of James P. Johnson, whose musical career spanned the ragtime era.
Author: Michael P Johnson Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469621487 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
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These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three slaves and was the wealthiest free black in South Carolina. Although the early letters are indistinguishable from those of white contemporaries, the later correspondence is preoccupied with proof of their free status.
Author: James D. Johnson Publisher: University of North Texas Press ISBN: 1574411330 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 310
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Chaplain James D. Johnson chose to accompany his men, unarmed, on their daily combat operations. This is his chronicle of Vietnam and the aftermath of war, of his coming to terms with his post-traumatic demons, and his need for healing and cleansing which led him to revisit Vietnam years later.
Author: James Weldon Johnson Publisher: Penguin Group ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 88
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The inspirational sermons of the old Negro preachers are set down as poetry in this collection -- a classic for more than forty years, frequently dramatized, recorded, and anthologized. Mr. Johnson tells in his preface of hearing these same themes treated by famous preachers in his youth; some of the sermons are still current, and like the spirituals they have taken a significant place in black folk art. In transmuting their essence into original and moving poetry, the author has also ensured the survival of a great oral tradition. Book jacket.
Author: James Weldon Johnson Publisher: Modern Library ISBN: 0307796868 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 352
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“A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd.” –Henry Louis Gates, Jr. One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of the NAACP, and the first African American to hold a diplomatic post as consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua. This comprehensive volume of Johnson’s works includes the seminal novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, poems from God’s Trombones, essays on cultural and political topics, selections from Johnson’s autobiography, Along This Way, and two previously unpublished short plays: Do You Believe in Ghosts? and The Engineer. Featuring a chronology, bibliography, and a Foreword by acclaimed author Charles Johnson, this Modern Library edition showcases the tremendous range of James Weldon Johnson’s writings and their considerable influence on American civic and cultural life. “This collection of poetry, fiction, criticism, autobiography, political writing and two unpublished plays by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) spans 60 years of pure triumph over adversity. [….Johnson’s] nobility, his inspiration shine forth from these pages, setting moral and artistic standards.” —Los Angeles Times
Author: James Weldon Johnson Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 135
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First published in the year 1912, 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author: Michael P. Johnson Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393245489 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 440
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"A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. In a day when most Americans, black and white, worked the soil, barely scraping together a living, Ellison was a cotton-gin maker—a master craftsman. When nearly all free blacks were destitute, Ellison was wealthy and well-established. He owned a large plantation and more slaves than all but the richest white planters. While Ellison was exceptional in many respects, the story of his life sheds light on the collective experience of African Americans in the antebellum South to whom he remained bound by race. His family history emphasizes the fine line separating freedom from slavery.
Author: Robert L. Doerschuk Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 9780879306564 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 341
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Presents profiles of eighty-eight jazz pianists, from Jelly Roll Morton, born in New Orleans in 1890, to Wisconsin's Geoff Keezer, born in 1970, with interviews and critiques, photographs, and a sampler CD.
Author: Scott E. Brown
Author: Scott E. Brown
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Author: James Weldon Johnson
Author: James Weldon Johnson
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Author: Robert L. Doerschuk