Spreadin' rhythm around : Black popular songwriters, 1880-1930 /

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Author / Creator:Jasen, David A.
Imprint:New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1998.
Description:xxvi, 435 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3453290
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Varying Form of Title:Spreading rhythm around
Other authors / contributors:Jones, Gene (Gordon Gene)
ISBN:0028647424
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-420) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Before Pop
  • Ch. 1. "In the Evening by the Moonlight": The Minstrel Era and the Beginnings of Tin Pan Alley. James A. Bland. Gussie L. Davis
  • Ch. 2. "Stay in Your Own Back Yard": Black Songwriters of the Coon Song Era. Irving Jones. Ernest Hogan. Bert Williams
  • Ch. 3. "Tell me, Dusky Maiden": The First Black Composers on Broadway. Will Marion Cook. Bob Cole and J. Rosamond Johnson
  • Ch. 4. Business is Business with me: The First Black Publishers of Popular Music. Shep Edmonds. Cecil Mack
  • Ch. 5. Livin' High (Sometimes): Black Songwriters of the Teens and Twenties. Chris Smith. Shelton Brooks. James Reese Europe. Spencer Williams. Maceo Pinkard. Jo Trent. Andy Razaf
  • Ch. 6. Aunt Hagar's Children: The Black Entrepreneurs of the Blues. W. C. Handy. Perry Bradford. Clarence Williams. J. Mayo Williams
  • Ch. 7. If you've never been Vamped by a Brown Skin: Black Theatre Composers of the 1920s. Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake. Henry Creamer and Turner Layton. James P. Johnson. Fats Waller.