Title: Swing along : the musical life of Will Marion Cook /
Authors: Carter, Marva Griffin.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Cook, Will Marion.; Composers United States Biography; African American composers Biography.
Abstract: Composer, conductor and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s. In this biography, Marva Griffin Carter writes about Cook's music, career and personality, drawing on both his unfinished autobiography and his wife Abbie's memoir.
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.