The Negro and his music
Series: Kennikat Press series in Negro culture and history; African American music reference
Publisher: Kennikat Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Port Washington, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: African American musicians; African Americans; Music; History and criticism; Jazz; English Songs
Notes: Reprint of the ed. first published in 1936.

"Reading references" at end of each chapter; "Record illustrations" at end of most of the chapters.
Table of contents: title: I. The Negro and His Music, Introductin; title: II. Negro Music, Types and Periods; title: III. The Sorrow Songs, The Spirituals; title: IV. Folk Seculars, Blues and Work Songs; title: V. Early Negro Musicians; title: VI. The First Age of Minstrelsy; title: VII. The Second Age of Mistrelsy; title: VIII. Ragtime and Musical Comedy; title: IX. Jazz and the Jazz AGe; title: X. From Jazz to Jazz Classics; title: XI. Classical Jazz and American Music; title: XII. Negro Musicians of To-day; title: XIII. The Future of Negro Music.