The music of black Americans : a history / Eileen Southern Associate Professor of Music, York College of the City University of New York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Southern, Eileen.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African Americans--Music.

Music--United States--History and criticism.

Music.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 552 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, music, facsimilies.; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton Inc., 1971.

Contents:

Part I Song in a Strange Land, 1619-1775. The African Heritage; New England and the Middle Colonies; The Southern Colonies

Part II Let My People Go, 1776-1866. Two Wars and the New Nation; The Ante- Bellum Period: Urban Life; The Ante-Bellum Period: Rural Life; The Ante-Bellum Period: General Character of the Folk Music; The War Years and Emancipation

Part III Blow Ye the Trumpet, 1867-1919. After the War; The Turn of the Century; Precursors of Jazz: Ragtime and Blues; Precursors of Jazz: Syncopated Dance Orchestras and Brass Bands

Part IV Lift Every Voice, 1920-. The Jazz Age; The Black Renaissance; Composers: From Nationalists to Experimentalists; The Mid-Century Years.

Notes:

"Maps by Theodore R. Miller."

Includes index.

"Bibliography and Discography": pages 511-532.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0393021564

0393098990

OCLC:

125122