Author: Charles Kinkel
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Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Lynn Abbott
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604731486
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. “Coon songs,” with their ugly name, defined ragtime for the masses, and played a transitional role in the commercial ascendancy of blues and jazz. In Ragged but Right, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff investigate black musical comedy productions, sideshow bands, and itinerant tented minstrel shows. Ragtime history is crowned by the “big shows,” the stunning musical comedy successes of Williams and Walker, Bob Cole, and Ernest Hogan. Under the big tent of Tolliver's Smart Set, Ma Rainey, Clara Smith, and others were converted from “coon shouters” to “blues singers.” Throughout the ragtime era and into the era of blues and jazz, circuses and Wild West shows exploited the popular demand for black music and culture, yet segregated and subordinated black performers to the sideshow tent. Not to be confused with their nineteenth-century white predecessors, black, tented minstrel shows such as the Rabbit's Foot and Silas Green from New Orleans provided blues and jazz-heavy vernacular entertainment that black southern audiences identified with and took pride in.

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1226

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1062

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"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 994

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1090

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Author: Ann Sophia Stephens
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 988

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Author: Allen Koenigsberg
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Humphrey Evans
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 872

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