In offering this study of Negro music, I do so with the admission that there is no consistent development as found in national schools of music. The Negro, a mu

Spencer's discussion encompasses the music and writings of a wide range of important figures, including James Weldon Johnson, Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, M

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

Introduction : who hears here now? -- Cosmopolitan or provincial? : ideology in early black music historiography, 1867-1940 -- Who hears here? : black music, cr

From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renais