A01=Doug Seroff
A01=Lynn Abbott
African American Studies
Author_Doug Seroff
Author_Lynn Abbott
Category=AVLT
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Music
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- ISBN 9781604732443
- Weight: 1437g
- Dimensions: 201 x 253mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2009
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A product of old-fashioned, back-wearying, foundational scholarship, yet very readable, this book is certain to feature importantly in future studies of early jazz and its prehistory. Highly recommended."" --Library Journal""This volume makes possible the study of the rise of black music in the days that paved the way for the Harlem Renaissance--the brass bands, the banjo and mandolin clubs, the male quartets, and theatrical companies. Summing up: Essential."" --Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA landmark study, based on thousands of music-related references mined by the authors from a variety of contemporaneous sources, especially African American community newspapers, Out of Sight examines musical personalities, issues, and events in context. It confronts the inescapable marketplace concessions musicians made to the period's prevailing racist sentiment. It describes the worldwide travels of jubilee singing companies, the plight of the great black prima donnas, and the evolution of ""authentic"" African American minstrels. Generously reproducing newspapers and photographs, Out of Sight puts a face on musical activity in the tightly knit black communities of the day.
Drawing on hard-to-access archival sources and song collections, the book is of crucial importance for understanding the roots of ragtime, blues, jazz, and gospel. Essential for comprehending the evolution and dissemination of African American popular music from 1900 to the present, Out of Sight paints a rich picture of musical variety, personalities, issues, and changes during the period that shaped American popular music and culture for the next hundred years.
Drawing on hard-to-access archival sources and song collections, the book is of crucial importance for understanding the roots of ragtime, blues, jazz, and gospel. Essential for comprehending the evolution and dissemination of African American popular music from 1900 to the present, Out of Sight paints a rich picture of musical variety, personalities, issues, and changes during the period that shaped American popular music and culture for the next hundred years.
Lynn Abbott works for the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University. He is the author (with Doug Seroff) of Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, ""Coon Songs,"" and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz.|Doug Seroff is an independent scholar living in Greenbriar, Tennessee. He is the author (with Lynn Abbott) of Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, ""Coon Songs,"" and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz.
