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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2015.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.