Jean E. Snyder

Harry T. Burleigh (eBook, ePUB)

From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) played a leading role in American music and culture in the twentieth century. Celebrated for his arrangements of spirituals, Burleigh was also the first African American composer to create a significant body of art song. An international roster of opera and recital singers performed his works and praised them as among the best of their time. Jean E. Snyder traces Burleigh's life from his Pennsylvania childhood through his fifty-year tenure as soloist at St. George's Episcopal Church in Manhattan. As a composer, Burleigh's pioneering work preserved and transformed the African American spiritual; as a music editor, he facilitated the work of other black composers; as a role model, vocal coach, and mentor, he profoundly influenced American song; and in private life he was friends with Antonín Dvorák, Marian Anderson, Will Marion Cook, and other America luminaries. Snyder provides rich historical, social, and political contexts that explore Burleigh's professional and personal life within an era complicated by changes in race relations, class expectations, and musical tastes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780252098109
• Artikelnr.: 44907125

Autorenporträt

Ethnomusicologist Jean E. Snyder has taught in Kenya and Zambia, and at several colleges and universities in western Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Major Events in the Life of Harry T. Burleigh
PART I. ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA: FOUNDATION FOR A NATIONAL CAREER
1. Hamilton Waters and the Struggle for Freedom and Education
2. The Family and Community That Shaped Burleigh's Youth
3. Burleigh's Music Experience and Training in Erie
PART II. TO NEW YORK CITY AND BEYOND
4. Burleigh at the National Conservatory of Music
5. Introducing Antonín Dvöák to African American Music
6. The Columbian Exposition--The Chicago World's Fair
7. The Symphony "From the New World"
8. Foremost Musician and Engaged Citizen
9. Burleigh's Singing Career
10. Music Mentor and Colleague
11. Family Matters: Fame and Its Discontents
12. Wife and Family of the "Eminent Baritone"
13. St. George's Becomes Mr. Burleigh's Church
PART III. ART SONG COMPOSER, MUSIC EDITOR, AND PIONEER ARRANGER OF
SPIRITUALS
14. A Singer-Composer Learns His Craft
15. "Composer by Divine Right"
16. Bringing Spirituals to the Concert Stage
17. Burleigh Spirituals and the Harlem Renaissance
PART IV. BURLEIGH'S LEGACY
18. The Impact of a Life
Notes
Index