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Author Absher, Amy.

Title Black Musician and the White City : Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
Published University of Michigan Press, 2014

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Contents Musicians and the segregated city : Chicago in the early 1900s-1930s -- From south to south side : musicians in 1940s Chicago -- Redefining the music industry : independent music in Chicago, 1948-1953 -- From south side to the south and the nation, 1954-1963 -- "The fact remains ... we are negroes" : dissonance and the desegregation of Chicago's musicians' union, 1963-1967
Summary Amy Absher's The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular performers, from the American South to Chicago during the 1930s to 1950s. Absher takes the history beyond the study of jazz and blues by examining the significant role that classically trained black musicians played in building the Chicago South Side community. By acknowledging the presence and importance of classical musicians, Absher argues that black migrants in Chicago had diverse education and economic backgrounds but found common cause in the city's music community
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index
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Subject African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Music -- History and criticism
Popular music -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History and criticism
Popular music -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
Music and race -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
African American musicians -- Illinois -- Chicago
Music trade -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
African American musicians -- Labor unions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
Musicians -- Labor unions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
HISTORY -- General.
African American musicians
African Americans -- Music
Music and race
Music trade
Musicians -- Labor unions
Popular music
Popular music -- Social aspects
Illinois -- Chicago
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1306902568
9781306902564
9780472029983
0472029983
9780472900961
047290096X
9780472119172
0472119176