Title:
Dvořák to Duke Ellington a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots / Maurice Peress.
Main Entry:
Peress, Maurice.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Publication Date:
2004.
Publication Place:
Oxford ; New York :
ISBN:
0195098226 (alk. paper)
Subject:
Music -- United States -- African American influences.
Electronic books.
Peress, Maurice.
Contents:
Antonin Dvořák comes to America -- America and Negro music -- Dvořák's symphony "From the New World" -- The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- The National Conservatory of Music of America -- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Clorilindy, and "The talented tenth" -- James Reese Europe -- George Gershwin and African American music -- Leonard Bernstein -- Gershwin's "Rhapsody in blue" -- The Clef Club concert -- Will Marion Cook -- George Antheil's "Ballet mécanique" -- Bernstein's Mass -- Duke Ellington -- Ellington's "Queenie pie" -- Ellington's "Black, brown and beige".
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