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The Product of Our Souls : Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace /

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 bl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gilbert, David W. (David Walker), 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • 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.