Racial uplift and American music, 1878-1943 / Lawrence Schenbeck.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Schenbeck, Lawrence.

Series:

• American made music series.
• American made music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
• African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Racial Uplift and American Music 1878-1943 traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans' embrace of classical music around the turn of the previous century, from the collapse of Reconstruction to the death of composer/conductor R. Nathaniel Dett, whose music epitomized ""uplift."" After Reconstruction many black leaders had retreated from emphasizing ""inalienable rights"" to a narrower rationale for equality and inclusion: they now sought to rehabilitate the Race's image by stressing class distinctions, respectable middle-class behavior, and service to th

Contents:

• James Monroe Trotter and his forebears
• W. E. B. Du Bois and the uses of black music
• Nathaniel Dett and romantic nationalism
• Dett against the modernists
• Nora Douglas Holt and her world : mediating music in the black community
• Music, race, and the Rosenwalds.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9786613942180
• 9781283629737
• 1283629739
• 9781617032301
• 1617032301

OCLC:

776690693