Research Catalog

Title

Harry T. Burleigh : from the spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance / Jean E. Snyder.

Author

Snyder, Jean E., 1939-

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

xxiii, 415 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Music in American life

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Music in American life.

Subject

• Burleigh, H. T. 1866-1949
• Burleigh, H. T. 1866-1949
• African American composers > Biography
• Composers > United States > Biography
• African American musicians > Biography
• African American gospel singers > Biography
• African American composers
• Composers
• African American composers > United States > Biography
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hamilton Waters and the struggle for freedom and education -- The family and community that shaped Burleigh's youth -- Burleigh's music experience and training in Erie -- Burleigh at the National Conservatory of Music -- Introducing Antonín Dvořák to African American music -- The Columbian Exposition : the Chicago World's Fair -- The symphony "from the new world" -- Foremost musician and engaged citizen -- Burleigh's singing career -- Music mentor and colleague -- Family matters : fame and its discontents -- Wife and family of the "eminent baritone" -- St. George's becomes Mr. Burleigh's church -- A singer-composer learns his craft -- "Composer by divine right" -- Bringing spirituals to the concert stage -- Burleigh spirituals and the Harlem Renaissance -- The impact of a life.

ISBN

• 9780252039942
• 0252039947
• 9780252098109 (canceled/invalid)
• 0252098102 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015038368

OCLC

• 923017551
• SCSB-10166933

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library