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The Product of Our Souls Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace / David Gilbert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilbert, David W. (David Walker), 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American musicians--New York (State)--New York.
- African American musicians.
- Music and race--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Music and race.
- Ragtime music--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Ragtime music.
- Ragtime music--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.
- African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work explores how African American performers, at the height of Jim Crow, transformed their racial difference into the mass-market commodity known as 'black music'. David Gilbert shows how they used the rhythmic sounds of ragtime, blues, and jazz to construct new representations of black identity, challenging preconceived ideas about race, culture, and modernity.
- Contents:
- A new musical rhythm was given to the people : rhythm and representation in black Manhattan
- Do all we could to get what we felt belonged to us by the laws of nature : selling real Negro melodies and marketing authentic black rhythms
- Appreciate the noble and the beautiful within us : ragging uplift with rhythmic transgressions
- The piano man was it! The man in charge : black nightclubs and ragtime identities in New York's Tenderloin
- To promote greater efficiency among its members : ragtime in Times Square and the Clef Club Inc
- Rhythm is something that is born in the Negro : black musical value and the consolidation of "Negro music"
- A new type of Negro musician : social dance and black musical value in prewar America.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908454-5-0
- 979-88-908454-6-7
- 1-4696-3152-0
- 1-4696-2271-8
- OCLC:
- 905949629
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