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.

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