The exile's song
Subtitle: Edmond Dédé and the unfinished revolutions of the Atlantic world
By: Sally McKee
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780300221367
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Composers; African American composers; Biography
Other titles: Edmond Dédé and the unfinished revolutions of the Atlantic world
Description: "In 1855, Edmond Dédé, a free black composer from New Orleans, immigrated to Paris. There he trained with France's best classical musicians and went on to spend thirty-six years in Bordeaux, leading the city's most popular orchestras ... Sally McKee vividly recounts the life of this extraordinary man"--Book jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lost; title: A family long free; title: City of sound; title: City of dust; title: City of song; title: City of exile; title: The lost violin; title: Found.