Title Spreadin' rhythm around : Black popular songwriters, 1880-1930 / David A. Jasen and Gene Jones.

Publication Info.	New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, [1998]
	©1998

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott: Circulating Collection	ML390 .J37 S6 1998	Available	---

Description	xxvi, 435 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-420) and indexes.
Contents	ch. 1. In the evening by the moonlight: the minstrel era and the beginnings of Tin Pan Alley -- ch. 2. Stay in your own back yard: Black songwriters of the coon song era -- ch. 3. Tell me, dusky maiden: the first black composers on Broadway -- ch. 4. Business in business with me: the first black publishers of popular music -- ch. 5. Livin high (sometimes): black songwriters of the teens and twenties -- ch. 6. Aunt Hagars children: the black entrepreneurs of the blues -- ch. 7. If youve never been vamped by a brown skin: black theatre composers of the 1920s.
Subject	Composers, Black -- Biography.
	Composers, Black.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Composers -- United States -- Biography.
	Composers.
	United States.
	African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
	African Americans -- Music.
	Popular music -- United States -- 19th century.
	Popular music.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Popular music -- United States -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Added Author	Jones, Gene (Gordon Gene)
Added Title	Spreading rhythm around
	Black popular songwriters
ISBN	0028647424