Swing along
Subtitle: the musical life of Will Marion Cook
By: Marva Griffin Carter.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195108910
Subjects: Cook, Will Marion; Composers -- United States -- Biography; African American composers -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ).
Table of contents: title: Boyhood; title: From Oberlin to Berlin; title: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893-34; title: The National Conservatory and beginning of musical career; title: "Broadway, here I come!"; title: In Dahomey; title: The "students" and the stage; title: Removing the "minstrel mask"; title: The Clef Club, darkydom, and World War I; title: The Southern Syncopated Orchestra; title: "A hell of a life"; title: A composer's legacy; title: Postlude : "Swing Along".