Swing along : the musical life of Will Marion Cook / Marva Griffin Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Marva Griffin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cook, Will Marion.

Composers--United States--Biography.

Composers.

African American composers--Biography.

African American composers.

Physical Description:

184 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Renowned today as a prominent African-American in Music Theater and the Arts community, composer, conductor, and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s. In this insightful biography, Marva Griffin Carter offers the first definitive look at this pivotal life's story, drawing on both Cook's unfinished autobiography and his wife Abbie's memoir. Carter writes about Cook's music, career, and personality with great understanding, deftly putting Cook's life into a broad historical context of the growing consciousness and sophistication of blacks in the arts.

Contents:

Boyhood

From Oberlin to Berlin

The Chicago World's Fair of 1893-34

The National Conservatory and beginning of musical career

Broadway, here I come!

In Dahomey

The students and the stage

Removing the minstrel mask

The Clef Club, darkydom, and World War I

The Southern Syncopated Orchestra

A hell of a life

A composer's legacy

Postlude: Swing Along.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0198026854

9780198026853

OCLC:

476245098