The Black Musician and the White City : Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967

Amy Absher's The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular...

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Auteur principal: Absher, Amy
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Musicians and the segregated city : Chicago in the early 1900s-1930s
  • From south to south side : musicians in 1940s Chicago
  • Redefining the music industry : independent music in Chicago, 1948-1953
  • From south side to the south and the nation, 1954-1963
  • "The fact remains ... we are negroes" : dissonance and the desegregation of Chicago's musicians' union, 1963-1967.