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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilbert, David W. (David Walker), 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ragtime music.
Music and race.
African Americans > Music.
African American musicians.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
Musique et race > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Musiciens noirs americains > New York (État) > New York.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Music > History and criticism.
Ragtime music > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism.
Ragtime music > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Music and race > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African American musicians > New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 black identity, challenging preconceived ideas about race, culture, and modernity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9781469622712

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