From Cakewalks to Concert Halls, second-prize winner of the 1992 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, traces the growth of a uniquely American art form from the days of blackface minstrelsy to the big-band era. The first pictorial study of the subject, From Cakewalks to Concert Halls features rarely seen sheet-music covers in Morgan's personal ...
THE SON OF FORMER SLAVES, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Thirty-three years old at the time of his death in 1906, he had published four novels, four collections of short stories, and fourteen books of poetry, as well as numerous songs, plays, and essays in ...
New Volume This unique ready-reference series investigates international culture and the means by which we communicate. Each alphabetically arranged volume focuses on a particular culture, with 500 to l,000 signed entries ranging from 50 to 1,000 words. Enhancements include maps, illustrations and photos, a master chronology, a glossary and a ...
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