Racial uplift and American music, 1878-1943 /

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 musi...

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Main Author: Schenbeck, Lawrence
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012
Series:American made music series.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.