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Negro musicians and their music / by Maud Cuney-Hare.
LIBRA ML3556 .H32 1936
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cuney-Hare, Maud, 1874-1936, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American musicians.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Music--United States--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--Africa--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Music.
- Africa.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Music.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6789) (Schimmel 7194))
- Abrahams, Roger D. (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6789))
- Physical Description:
- XII, 439, [1] pages, [39] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, music ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The Associated Publishers, Inc., [1936]
- Contents:
- Africa
- Africa in song
- African influences in America
- Negro folk songs
- religious and secular
- Folk song in the provinces
- The origin of Negro songs
- Negro idiom and rhythm
- Musical comedy
- Folk themes in larger forms of composition
- Musical pioneers
- Musical progress
- Music in war service
- World musicians of color
- Torch bearers
- Interpretive musicians.
- Notes:
- Includes music.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-423) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6789) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6789) has two blue ink stamps ("Roger D. Abrahams") on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 7194) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 7194) has a few manuscript marks in pencil in text.
- OCLC:
- 885535
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