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Title:
Racial uplift and American music, 1878-1943
Author:
Schenbeck, Lawrence.
ISBN:
9781617032301
Publication Information:
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 317).
Series:
American made music

American made music series.
Abstract:
Racial Uplift and American Music 1878-1943 traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans' embrace of classical music around the turn of the previous century, from the collapse of Reconstruction to the death of composer/conductor R. Nathaniel Dett, whose music epitomized "uplift." After Reconstruction many black leaders had retreated from emphasizing "inalienable rights" to a narrower rationale for equality and inclusion: they now sought to rehabilitate the Race's image by stressing class distinctions, respectable middle-class behavior, a.
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