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African-American Band Music and Recordings, 1883-1923 [web presentation]
- Title
- African-American Band Music and Recordings, 1883-1923 [web presentation]
- Date Created
- Span: 1883-1923
- Form
- web presentation
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- Drawing on material from the Library of Congress copyright deposits, this special presentation offers popular music by African-American composers for two types of instrumental ensemble: for band and for what musicians call "theater orchestra" or "hotel orchestra." All of the printed music comes from published sources--there are no transcriptions from recordings--and all of it is in the form of instrumental parts, ready for performance. Also featured are vintage sound recordings of music of African-American composers and performers, and biographical essays on composers such as Eubie Blake, Robert Cole, Gussie L. Davis, R. Nathaniel Dett, James Reese Europe, and Bert Williams.
- Subjects
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African American Music
African Americans in the Performing Arts
Jazz Band
Orchestral Music
American Composers
Accooe, Will
Adams, Alton A.
Arnold, Maurice
Blake, Eubie
Brymn, J. Tim
Cole, Bob
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
Cook, Will Marion
Davis, Gussie L.
Dett, R. Nathaniel
Europe, James Reese
Hill, J. Leubrie (John Leubrie)
Johnson, Billy
Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond)
Jordan, Joe
Larkins, John
Perrin, Sidney
Pinkard, Maceo
Ring, Montaque
Roberts, Luckey
Shook, Benjamin
Sissle, Noble
Smith, Chris
Tyers, William H.
Wade, Herman
Walker, George
Weston, Horace
White, Clarence Cameron
Williams, Bert
Edmonds, Shepard N.
- Contents note
- Stock band arrangements by African-American composers (207); recordings (77); historical and biographical essays (33).
- Repository
- Multiple Divisions, Library of Congress
- Online Collection
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/stocks/stocks-home.html