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James P Johnson
Author | : Scott E. Brown |
Publsiher | : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press and the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015009702781 |
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A biography and discography of James P. Johnson, whose musical career spanned the ragtime era.
Ellington Uptown
Author | : John Louis Howland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : UOM:39015079260868 |
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Explores a little-discussed yet truly hybrid American musical tradition lost between the canons of authentic jazz and classical music
No Chariot Let Down
Author | : Michael P Johnson,James L. Roark |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469621487 |
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These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three slaves and was the wealthiest free black in South Carolina. Although the early letters are indistinguishable from those of white contemporaries, the later correspondence is preoccupied with proof of their free status.
James P Johnson
Author | : Frank H. Trolle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Jazz |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105122672590 |
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Combat Chaplain
Author | : James D. Johnson |
Publsiher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781574411331 |
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Chaplain James D. Johnson chose to accompany his men, unarmed, on their daily combat operations. This is his chronicle of Vietnam and the aftermath of war, of his coming to terms with his post-traumatic demons, and his need for healing and cleansing which led him to revisit Vietnam years later.
Black Bottom Stomp
Author | : David A. Jasen,Gene Jones |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781135349356 |
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Black Bottom Stomp tells the compelling stories of the lives and times of nine seminal figures in American music history, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.
God s Trombones
Author | : James Weldon Johnson |
Publsiher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : African American preaching |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105003804452 |
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The inspirational sermons of the old Negro preachers are set down as poetry in this collection -- a classic for more than forty years, frequently dramatized, recorded, and anthologized. Mr. Johnson tells in his preface of hearing these same themes treated by famous preachers in his youth; some of the sermons are still current, and like the spirituals they have taken a significant place in black folk art. In transmuting their essence into original and moving poetry, the author has also ensured the survival of a great oral tradition. Book jacket.
King of Ragtime
Author | : Edward A. Berlin |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 1996-01-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780199839148 |
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In 1974, the academy award-winning film The Sting brought back the music of Scott Joplin, a black ragtime composer who died in 1917. Led by The Entertainer, one of the most popular pieces of the mid-1970s, a revival of his music resulted in events unprecedented in American musical history. Never before had any composer's music been so acclaimed by both the popular and classical music worlds. While reaching a "Top Ten" position in the pop charts, Joplin's music was also being performed in classical recitals and setting new heights for sales of classical records. His opera Treemonisha was performed both in opera houses and on Broadway. Destined to be the definitive work on the man and his music, King of Ragtime is written by Edward A. Berlin. A renowned authority on Joplin and the author of the acclaimed and widely cited Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History, Berlin redefines the Scott Joplin biography. Using the tools of a trained musicologist, he has uncovered a vast amount of new information about Joplin. His biography truly documents the story of the composer, replacing the myths and unsupported anecdotes of previous histories. He shows how Joplin's opera Treemonisha was a tribute to the woman he loved, a woman other biographers never even mentioned. Berlin also reveals that Joplin was an associate of Irving Berlin, and that he accused Berlin of stealing his music to compose Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1911. Berlin paints a vivid picture of the ragtime years, placing Scott Joplin's story in its historical context. The composer emerges as a representative of the first post-Civil War generation of African Americans, of the men and women who found in the world of entertainment a way out of poverty and lowly social status. King of Ragtime recreates the excitement of these pioneers, who dreamed of greatness as they sought to expand the limits society placed upon their race.