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The black and white of American popular music : from slavery to World War II / [by] Vera Lee.
- Title
- The black and white of American popular music : from slavery to World War II / [by] Vera Lee.
- Author
- Lee, Vera, 1923-
- Publication
- Rochester, Vt. : Schenkman Books, c2007.
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| Text | Request in advance | ML3477 .L425 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 363 p. : music; 21 cm.
- Summary
- This book probes the interplay of black and white popular music, from the minstrel period to bebop, examining connections relations between the races in a wide variety of fields, such as musical comedy, radio, recording, songwriting, performance, industry, etc.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-352) and index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-352) and index.
- Contents
- Black music in a white world -- Discovery : from Black culture to white commodity -- Arrival : the color of ragtime -- The white female : from reality to song -- The African-American female : from reality to song -- Breaking in : musical comedy from the turn of the century to the Depression -- Crossing over : singers and songwriters -- Quest for a public : race records and Tin Pan Alley publishers -- A rocky road : barricades and breakthroughs -- Starting up : early jazz and dance bands -- Big bands : the Black pace setters -- Big bands : the white presence -- The fall of swing, the rise of bop -- Critics and controversy -- The dance connection -- Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 0870470779 (pbk.)
- 9780870470776 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2006103236
- OCLC
- 78774666
- SCSB-12113456
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library