Miller, Karl Hagstrom
Summary: Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music--a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice--was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2010
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Summary: "A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"-how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvorák prophesied a "great and noble" school of American classical music based on the searing "negro melodies" he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would found popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.973 HORPhinney, Kevin.
Summary: "... a comprehensive look at race relations in the United States as seen through the prism of music from slavery to the present"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Billboard Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.89 PHIRobbins, Dean
Summary: "Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021