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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.
Sommario
- 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
Info autore
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.
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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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Along with many others, I have been waiting for a new, scholarly, thorough, and insightful biography of this one-of-a-kind American figure. Finally, we have one, nicely-illustrated and carefully documented.
