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Swing along : the musical life of Will Marion Cook / Marva Griffin Carter.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Marva Griffin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cook, Will Marion.
- Composers--United States--Biography.
- Composers.
- African American composers.
- United States.
- African American composers--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Boyhood
- From Oberlin to Berlin
- The Chicago World's Fair of 1893-34
- The National Conservatory and beginning of musical career
- "Broadway, here I come!"
- In Dahomey
- The "students" and the stage
- Removing the "minstrel mask"
- The Clef Club, darkydom, and World War I
- The Southern Syncopated Orchestra
- "A hell of a life"
- A composer's legacy
- Postlude : "Swing Along".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176).
- ISBN:
- 9780195108910
- 0195108914
- OCLC:
- 132583867
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