| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxiii, 229 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-214) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / by George Shirley -- Using the past -- Dvořak, American music, and race. Dvořák's prophecy ; Dvořák's progeny: Burleigh and Coleridge-Taylor ; The Black symphonists ; Porgy and Bess ; The appropriation debate -- In defense of nostalgia. James Gibbons Huneker and the "Old Guard" ; In defense of nostalgia ; Henry Edward Krehbiel and "Negro melodies" ; The fragmentation of culture -- Nostalgic subversions. Using the vernacular: Mark Twain and Charles Ives ; Race and the moral core ; The transcendentalist past -- Oedipal revolt. The useless past: Van Wyck Brooks and the myth of the "Gilded Age" ; The useless past: Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, and the standard narrative ; Leonard Bernstein and the Ives Case ; Copland and Mexico ; Postscript: The standard narrative and the CIA -- The bifurcation of American music. Why American classical music stayed white ; Was there a usable musical past? ; Using Whitman and Melville ; Confluence ; The souls of Black folk -- Classical music Black and "Red". Rediscovering William Levi Dawson ; Rediscovering Florence Price ; Rediscovering Nathaniel Dett ; America's forbidden composer -- Using history: a personal quest. The condition of pastlessness ; Culture and "social control" ; Trigger warnings ; Reencountering Harry Burleigh ; Reencountering John Singer Sargent ; Reencountering Arthur Farwell ; Porgy and Dvořák's prophecy -- Summing up. A new paradigm ; The paradigm summarized ; Dvořák's prophecy. |
| Subject |
Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Music -- United States -- African American influences.
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Music and race -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Shirley, George, author of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Vexed fate of Black classical music |
| ISBN |
9780393881240 (hardcover) |
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0393881245 (hardcover) |
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9780393881257 electronic book |
| Standard No. |
40030880419 |
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