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Swing along [electronic resource] : the musical life of Will Marion Cook / Marva Griffin Carter.

By: Carter, Marva Griffin.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Cook, Will Marion | Composers -- United States -- Biography | African American composers -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 780.92 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Boyhood -- From Oberlin to Berlin -- The Chicago World's Fair of 1893-34 -- The National Conservatory and beginning of musical career -- Broadway, here I come! -- In Dahomey -- The students and the stage -- Removing the minstrel mask -- The Clef Club, darkydom, and World War I -- The Southern Syncopated Orchestra -- A hell of a life -- A composer's legacy -- Postlude: Swing Along.
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780.92 B (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176).

Boyhood -- From Oberlin to Berlin -- The Chicago World's Fair of 1893-34 -- The National Conservatory and beginning of musical career -- Broadway, here I come! -- In Dahomey -- The students and the stage -- Removing the minstrel mask -- The Clef Club, darkydom, and World War I -- The Southern Syncopated Orchestra -- A hell of a life -- A composer's legacy -- Postlude: Swing Along.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.