Showman : the life and music of Perry George Lowery / Clifford Edward Watkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkins, Clifford E.

Series:

American made music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lowery, P. G. (Perry George), 1869-1942.

Lowery, P. G.

Cornet players--United States--Biography.

Cornet players.

African American musicians--Biography.

African American musicians.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 165 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Life and music of Perry George Lowery

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2003]

Summary:

Long before the recognized birth of ragtime and jazz, such hard-working travelers as Perry George Lowery blew their horns and shaped the sound of modern music while performing in cities and towns across the nation.

Lowery's story follows the evolution of American music via the circus, minstrelsy, and the vaudeville stage. He led an exhausting on-the-road life, but his name faded from music history. Even after dazzling America as a marquee soloist and the leader of minstrel and circus bands, Lowery (1870-1942), touted as the "World's Greatest Colored Cornet Soloist," ended up in an unmarked grave in Cleveland, Ohio.

This biography, the only book-length study of this groundbreaking African American musician, resurrects his name. It is the story of a quiet maverick who became the standard that shook American music.

Contents:

The Flint Hills settlers

Going on the road

Lowery's progressive musical enterprise

To him who hustles

The finale of the Golden Age

The aftershow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-156) and index.

ISBN:

1578065550

1578065569

OCLC:

51613908