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In this companion volume to The Music of Black Americans, Eileen Southern draws on letters, journals, memoirs, ledgers, books, articles, and even slave advertisements in newspapers to illuminate the story told that historical survey, now in its Third Edition.
The collection includes documents dating from early America through the twentieth century. Monumental figures such as Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northrup, W. E. B. DuBois, W. C. Handy, Ethel Waters, Dizzy Gillespie, Imamu Baraka, and Martha Jackson are represented, as are several complete musical works, by Francis Johnson and others."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Second Edition: In this companion volume to The Music of Black America, Eileen Southern draws on letters, journals, memoirs, ledgers, books, articles, and even slave advertisements in newspapers to illuminate the story told in that historical survey, now in it Third Edition. The collection includes documents dating from early America through the twentieth century.
About the Author:
Eileen Southern, Professor Emerita of Music and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, founded and edited the journal The Black Perspective in Music (1973―90). She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherW.W. Norton & Company
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0393021653
- ISBN 13 9780393021653
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages302
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