Out of Sight
Subtitle: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 (American Made Music Series)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781578064991
Subjects: Rock & pop; To 1901-; History and criticism; Music; Music/Songbooks; Reference; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; History & Criticism - General; United States; Ethnomusicology; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; African Americans; Popular Music
First sentence: The years 1889 and 1890 bore witness to a unique moment in the history of spiritual, or "jubilee," singing, a zenith which was unfortunately short-lived.