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Freedom music : Wales, emancipation and jazz 1850 -1950 / Jen Wilson.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3509.G7 W55 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Jen, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Jazz--Wales--History and criticism.
- Great Britain.
- Wales.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The life, times and music of Swansea abolitionist Jessie Donaldson (1799-1889)
- Doing the plantation walkaround skedaddle
- The Fisk Jubilee Singers in Wales, freed slaves and their songs
- Ragtime and the cake walk: on stage and in the workhouse
- The First World War: ragtime trenches and suffragettes
- Café society: the Jazz Age
- Cutting a rug to the Second World War: Jews and 'Negro morals'
- Fair treatment for the 'fair sex'?
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1786834073
- 9781786834072
- OCLC:
- 1061090973
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