Let's get the rhythm of the band : a child's introduction to music from African-American culture with history and song / by Cheryl Warren Mattox ; with illustrations by Varnette P. Honeywood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattox, Cheryl Warren, author.

Contributor:

Honeywood, Varnette P., illustrator.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American musicians--Juvenile literature.

African American musicians.

African Americans--Music--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

African Americans--Music.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Music.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

63 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color), portraits, music ; 20 x 25 cm

Other Title:

Child's introduction to music from African-American culture with history and song

Place of Publication:

Nashville, TN : JTG of Nashville, [1993]

Summary:

A child's introduction to music from African-American culture, with history and songs.

Contents:

Let's get the rhythm of the band

Back in time

Kye kye kule

Everybody loves Saturday night

Go around the corn, Sally

Juba

Get on board, little children

Good news

Let's get the rhythm of the band (instrumental)

The ragtime craze

My mama's singing the blues

Play song jazz

Let's get the motion

Classical suite

What is the music

Looking good

The ragtime craze (instrumental).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 60) and index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has audio cassette "a production of the Warren-Mattox Productions, manufactured and distributed by JTG of Nashville ... Engineers Gary Mankin and Dave Weilhausen. Recorded at Dave Weilhausen Studio, San Francisco, CA 1993. Vocalists: July Bowen, Najpa Id-Deen, Joe Mattox ... Kreyboards: Cheryl Warren Mattox."

ISBN:

0938971972

9780938971979

OCLC:

32156019