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Pages: 240
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Blind Tom was the stage name of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind black pianist born into slavery in 1849. In this focused, consequential study, Southall reformula
The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative
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Pages: 497
Authors: John Ernest
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This volume approaches the history of slave testimony in three ways: by prioritising the broad tradition over individual authors; by representing inter-discipli
Song of the Shank
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Pages: 567
Authors: Jeffery Renard Allen
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-17 - Publisher: Graywolf Press

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A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era At the heart of this remarkable nove
Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Sandra Jean Graham
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-26 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singe
Blacks in Classical Music
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Raoul Abdul
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1977 - Publisher: Dodd Mead

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From the moment that Joseph Boulogne Saint-Georges poised his violin to play at the court of Louis XVI in eighteenth-century France, the Black presence has been