| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 299 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The African legacy -- Everyday slave life in the United States -- Church and ritual -- Leisure time in the negro quarters -- The Black preacher as an institution -- Everyday life after emancipation |
| Summary |
Here you will find images of country dances, corn-husking frolics, rural festivities, hunting, political gatherings, children at play, weddings, parades, the Negro burial, and many other themes. Over 120 artists are represented, including such eminent nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American painters as Thomas Eakins, Charles Demuth, Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, and William Sidney Mount, as well as lesser-known but important artists. This book is not a social history; instead, it allows the visual imagery to tell its own story |
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"This illustrated book brings together for the first time a significant body of imagery devoted to the expressive culture of African Americans from the 1770s to the 1920s. It includes over 250 paintings, engravings, and drawings which depict scenes of music, dance, religious practice, and storytelling in the everyday lives of blacks in their own, private social world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism -- Pictorial works
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Music in art.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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African Americans -- Music
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Music in art
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Pictorial works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wright, Josephine, 1942- author.
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| ISBN |
9781135657024 |
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1135657025 |
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