Richard Carlin, Ken Bloom

Eubie Blake

Rags, Rhythm, and Race

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing from a rich trove of archival sources, Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm, and Race tells the extraordinary story of a key 20th-century African American composer and traces the path his career blazed for other black artists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 781g
• ISBN-13: 9780190635930
• ISBN-10: 0190635932
• Artikelnr.: 58665652

Autorenporträt

Richard Carlin is a Grammy Award-winning author of numerous books on popular music, including Country Music: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2019), The Big Book of Country (1995), and Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways (2008). Ken Bloom is a Grammy Award-winning author of Show and Tell: The New Book of Broadway Anecdotes (OUP, 2016), Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time (2004), and Broadway: An Encyclopedia (2004). He is the co-founder of Harbinger Records, has been a Broadway correspondent for NPR and the CBC, and has directed and produced shows at Town Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, among other venues.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude: "It's Getting Dark On Old Broadway"
Acknowledgments
1. Family and Early Life: 1887-1903
2. Becoming an Established Musician: 1904-1915
3. Blake Meets Sissle: 1915-1919
4. Vaudeville: 1919-1921
5. Shuffle Along: 1921
6. Shuffling On: 1922-1923
7. Chocolate Dandies and the End of Sissle and Blake: 1924-1930
8. Hard Times: 1930-1936
9. Government Worker: 1937-1946
10. After the War: 1946-1952
11. Lean Times to Revival: 1953-1970
12. Final Years: Concert Stage and a Return to Broadway, 1971-1983
A Partial List of Eubie Blake's Compositions
Abbreviations for Source Notes
Bibliography