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Black Musician and the White City : Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
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Title
Black Musician and the White City : Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967.
ISBN
1306902568
9781306902564
9780472029983
0472029983
9780472900961
047290096X
9780472119172
0472119176
Published
University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
English.
Summary
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 performers, from the American South to Chicago during the 1930s to 1950s. Absher takes the history beyond the study of jazz and blues by examining the significant role that classically trained black musicians played in building the Chicago South Side community. By acknowledging the presence and importance of classical musicians, Absher argues that black migrants in Chicago had diverse education and economic backgrounds but found common cause in the city's music community.
Variant and related titles
KU Select 2017 Backlist Collection. OCLC KB.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 01, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.
Contents
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.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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