Book Description
The others are still known only to relatively small groups of enthusiasts - critics, knowledgeable collectors, and other musicians. This book tells their stories."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Mark Brend
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879306410
The others are still known only to relatively small groups of enthusiasts - critics, knowledgeable collectors, and other musicians. This book tells their stories."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Lena McPhatter Gore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 1997-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0313033323
A comprehensive directory of more than 600 entries, this detailed ready reference features professional, semi-professional, and academic stage organizations and theatres that have been in the forefront in pioneering most of the advances that African Americans have made in the theatre. It includes groups from the early 19th century to the dawn of the revolutionary Black theatre movement of the 1960s. It is an effort to bring together into one volume information that has hitherto been scattered throughout a number of different sources. The volume begins with an illuminating foreword by Errol Hill, a noted critic, playwright, scholar and Willard Professor of Drama Emeritus, Dartmouth College. A comprehensive directory of more than 600 entries, this detailed ready reference features professional, semi-professional, and academic stage organizations and theatres that have been in the forefront in pioneering most of the advances that African Americans have made in the theatre. It includes groups from the early 19th century to the dawn of the revolutionary Black theatre movement of the 1960s. It is an effort to bring together into one volume information that has hitherto been scattered throughout a number of different sources. The volume begins with an illuminating foreword by Errol Hill, a noted critic, playwright, scholar and Willard Professor of Drama Emeritus, Dartmouth College. Included in the volume are the earliest organizations that existed before the Civil War, Black minstrel troupes, pioneer musical show companies, selected vaudeville and road show troupes, professional theatrical associations, booking agencies, stock companies, significant amateur and little theatre groups, Black units of the WPA Federal Theatre, and semi-professional groups in Harlem after the Federal Theatre. The A-Z entries are supplemented with a classified appendix that also includes additional organizations not listed in the main directory, a bibliography, and three indexes for shows, showpeople, and general subjects. Cross referencing makes related information easy to find.
Author : John Haines
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139451790
This 2004 book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvere music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries, from the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions. A study of their reception therefore serves to illustrate the development of the modern concept of 'medieval music'. Important stages include sixteenth-century antiquarianism, the Enlightenment synthesis of scholarly and popular traditions and the infusion of archaeology and philology in the nineteenth century, leading to more recent theories on medieval rhythm. More often than now, writers and performers have negotiated a compromise between historical research and a more imaginative approach to envisioning the music of troubadours and trouveres. This book points not so much to a resurrection of medieval music in modern times as to a continuous tradition of interpreting these songs over eight centuries.
Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 019988286X
African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these stories of the renowned and the near forgotten give us a new view of American history. Our past is revealed from personal perspectives that in turn inspire, move, entertain, and even infuriate the reader. Subjects include slaves and abolitionists, writers, politicians, and business people, musicians and dancers, artists and athletes, victims of injustice and the lawyers, journalists, and civil rights leaders who gave them a voice. Their experiences and accomplishments combine to expose the complexity of race as an overriding issue in America's past and present. African American Lives features frequent cross-references among related entries, over 300 illustrations, and a general index, supplemented by indexes organized by chronology, occupation or area of renown, and winners of particular honors such as the Spingarn Medal, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize.
Author : Robert Coles
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Courage
ISBN : 1595585028
This book brings together a collection of profiles written about those guardian spirits who shaped, challenged, and inspired the author. It includes the famous, the lesser known, and the unknown: a tiny African American child threading her way through a cascade of racial epithets in the streets of New Orleans, a fellow physician-writer driven by his relentless pursuit of humanistic ideals, and an eighty-three-year-old New Mexico mother and wife who finds solace in the secrets of an inscrutable god.
Author : Rainer E. Lotz
Publisher : Dr Rainer Lotz
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783980346184
Collection of essays concerning how African-American musical idioms were spread across Europe by African-American musicians
Author : Errol G. Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521624435
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Publisher : McFarland
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 147661931X
Calypso, with its diverse cultural heritage, was the most significant Caribbean musical form from World War I to Trinidad and Tobago Independence in 1962. Though wildly popular in mid-1950s America, Calypso--along with other music from "the island of the hummingbird"--has been largely neglected or forgotten. This first-ever discography of the first 50 years of Trinidadian music includes all the major artists, as well as many obscure performers. Chronological entries for 78 rpm recordings give bibliographical references, periodicals, websites and the recording locations. Rare field recordings are cataloged for the first time, including East Indian and Muslim community performances and Shango and Voodoo rites. Appendices give 10-inch LP (78 rpm), 12-inch LP (33 1/3 rpm), extended play (ep) and 7-inch single (45) listings. Non-commercial field recordings, radio broadcasts and initially unissued sessions also are listed. The influence of Trinidadian music on film, and the "Calypso craze" are discussed. Audio sources are provided. Indexes list individual artists and groups, recording titles and labels.
Author : William Wei
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2010-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439903743
The first history and analysis of the Asian American Movement.
Author : James W. Evans
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1921
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :