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Author Jasen, David A.

Title Spreadin' rhythm around : Black popular songwriters, 1880-1930 / David A. Jasen and Gene Jones.

Publication Info. New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, [1998]
©1998

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  781.64 J    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  780.920 J31    Check Shelf
Description xxvi, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-420) and indexes.
Contents ch. 1. In the evening by the moonlight: the minstrel era and the beginnings of Tin Pan Alley -- ch. 2. Stay in your own back yard: Black songwriters of the coon song era -- ch. 3. Tell me, dusky maiden: the first black composers on Broadway -- ch. 4. Business in business with me: the first black publishers of popular music -- ch. 5. Livin high (sometimes): black songwriters of the teens and twenties -- ch. 6. Aunt Hagars children: the black entrepreneurs of the blues -- ch. 7. If youve never been vamped by a brown skin: black theatre composers of the 1920s.
Subject African American composers -- Biography.
Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Added Author Jones, Gene (Gordon Gene)
Added Title Spreading rhythm around
ISBN 0028647424
9780028647425
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