The exile's song : Edmond Dédé and the unfinished revolutions of the Atlantic World /

The exile's song : Edmond Dédé and the unfinished revolutions of the Atlantic World /

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Author / Creator:	McKee, Sally, author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	xi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Dédé, Edmond, -- 1827-1901. Dédé, Edmond, -- 1827-1901 Musicians, Black -- France -- Biography. Composers, Black -- France -- Biography. African American musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography. African American musicians. Composers, Black. Musicians, Black. France. Louisiana -- New Orleans. Biographies. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10921486

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Varying Form of Title:	Edmond Dédé and the unfinished revolutions of the Atlantic World
ISBN:	9780300221367 0300221363
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-247) and index (pages 249-256).
Summary:	"The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond Dédé, raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France. In 1855, Edmond Dédé, a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France's best classical musicians and went on to spend thirty-six years in Bordeaux leading the city's most popular orchestras. How did this African American, raised in the biggest slave market in the United States, come to compose ballets for one of the best theaters outside of Paris and gain recognition as one of Bordeaux's most popular orchestra leaders? Beginning with his birth in antebellum New Orleans in 1827 and ending with his death in Paris in 1901, Sally McKee vividly recounts the life of this extraordinary man. From the Crescent City to the City of Light and on to the raucous music halls of Bordeaux, this intimate narrative history brings to life the lost world of exiles and travelers in a rapidly modernizing world that threatened to leave the most vulnerable behind." -- "The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond Dédé, raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France."--Publisher's description.

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Call Number:	ML410.D298 M35 2017
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