Autobiographical Reminiscences of African-american Classical Singers, 1853 - Present
Subtitle: Introducing Their Spiritual Heritage into the Concert Repertoire
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr; Edwin Mellen Press
Published: September 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780773452503
Subjects: Black studies; Composers & musicians; Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who); Sacred & religious music; Vocal music; Composers & Musicians - General; Cultural Heritage; Genres & Styles - Opera; Biography & Autobiography; African American singers; Biography; History and criticism; Spirituals (Songs); Biography/Autobiography
Description: Artist profiles. Eva Alberta Jessye -- James Langston Hughes -- Josephine Wright -- Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield -- Sissieretta Jones -- Estelle Pinckney Clough -- Dena J. Epstein -- Benjamin M. Holmes -- Jennie Jackson -- Minnie Tate -- Maggie Porter Cole -- Thomas Rutling -- Georgie Gordon -- Julia Jackson -- Mabel Lewis -- Hinton D. Alexander -- Ella Sheppard -- E. Azalia Hackley -- Julius C. Bledsoe -- Carl Diton -- Abbie Mitchell -- Roland Hayes -- George Shirley -- Todd Duncan -- Camilla Williams -- Marian Anderson -- Paul Robeson -- Dorothy Maynor -- Betty Allen -- Leontyne Price -- William Warfield -- Shirley Verrett -- Grace Bumbry -- Simon Estes -- Jessye Norman -- Sylvia Olden Lee -- Kathleen Battle -- Vinson Cole -- Herbert Perry -- Mark S. Doss -- Denyce Graves -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Rosalyn M. Story -- James Weldon Johnson -- John Lovell, Jr. -- John Wesley Work -- J.A. Myers -- Marion Kerby -- Edward H. Boatner -- Harry T. Burleigh -- Hall Johnson -- Norman L. Merrifield -- Marvin V. Curtis -- Lee V. Cloud.