Black Musician and the White City Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967 / Amy Absher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Absher, Amy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Amy Absher's The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular performers, from the American South to Chicago during the 1930s to 1950s. Absher takes the history beyond the study of jazz and blues by examining the significant role that classically trained black musicians played in building the Chicago South Side community. By acknowledging the presence and importance of classical musicians, Absher argues that black migrants in Chicago had diverse education and economic backgrounds but found common cause in the city's music community.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Musicians and the Segregated City: Chicago in the Early 1900s-1930s 16

Chapter 2 From South to South Side: Musicians in 1940s Chicago 48

Chapter 3 Redefining the Music Industry: Independent Music in Chicago, 1948-1953 82

Chapter 4 From South Side to the South and the Nation, 1954-1963 98

Chapter 5 Dissonance and the Desegregation of Chicago's Musicians' Union, 1963-1967 139.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100863

ISBN:

9780472119172