A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe
Badger, ReidAuthor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2007.
James Reese Europe, as a composer and band leader at the height of ragtime, had a strong influence on the first generation of jazz musicians who were to follow. Europe's life reveals much about the role of black musicians in American culture in a period when it was presumed they had little place.
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James Reese Europe, as a composer and band leader at the height of ragtime, had a strong influence on the first generation of jazz musicians who were to follow. Europe's life reveals much about the role of black musicians in American culture in a period when it was presumed they had little place.
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Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Europe, James Reese, 1881-1919.
Bandmasters
Jazz musicians
Ragtime music