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That's got 'em! : the life and music of Wilbur C. Sweatman / Mark Berresford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berresford, Mark.
- Series:
- American made music series.
- American made music series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clarinetists--United States--Biography.
- Clarinetists.
- African American jazz musicians--Biography.
- African American jazz musicians.
- Jazz--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Vaudeville--United States--History--20th century.
- Vaudeville.
- Sweatman, Wilbur C. S.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 230 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African. American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth. century. In That's Got 'Em! , Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a. seven-decade career. His talent transformed every genre of black music before the. advent of rock and roll?""pickaninny"" bands, minstrelsy, circus sideshows, vaudeville. (both black and white), night clubs, and cabarets. Sweatman was the first African. American musician to be offered a long-term recording contract, and he dazzled. liste
- Contents:
- In defense of Wilbur Sweatman : a response to his critics
- Missouri childhood
- "Pickaninnies," Ernest Hogan, and a world tour
- Circus and minstrelsy : touring life with Cornet Kings P.G. Lowery and W.C. Handy
- The anchorage for the world's marvels : the Minneapolis years
- Chicago and an entertainment revolution
- The original and much-imitated ragtime clarinetist
- Ev'rybody's crazy 'bout the doggone blues
- Rainy day blues
- The ragtime dinosaur
- The daddy of the clarinet
- The silent years.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes list of known compositions by Sweatman.
- Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-48490-7
- 9786612484902
- 1-60473-371-3
- OCLC:
- 630115799
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