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Swing along : the musical life of Will Marion Cook / Marva Griffin Carter.

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LIBRA ML410.C7545 C37 2008
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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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