The product of our souls : ragtime, race, and the birth of the Manhattan musical marketplace /
Gilbert, David W. 1975-
The product of our souls : ragtime, race, and the birth of the Manhattan musical marketplace / David Gilbert. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
A new musical rhythm was given to the people : rhythm and representation in black Manhattan -- Do all we could to get what we felt belonged to us by the laws of nature : selling real Negro melodies and marketing authentic black rhythms -- Appreciate the noble and the beautiful within us : ragging uplift with rhythmic transgressions -- The piano man was it! The man in charge : black nightclubs and ragtime identities in New York's Tenderloin -- To promote greater efficiency among its members : ragtime in Times Square and the Clef Club Inc -- Rhythm is something that is born in the Negro : black musical value and the consolidation of "Negro music" -- A new type of Negro musician : social dance and black musical value in prewar America.
9781469622712 9781469622705
African American musicians--New York (State)--New York.
Music and race--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Ragtime music--Social aspects--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Ragtime music--History and criticism.--New York (State)--New York
African Americans--Music--History and criticism.--New York (State)--New York
Electronic Books.
ML3479 / .P763 2015
The product of our souls : ragtime, race, and the birth of the Manhattan musical marketplace / David Gilbert. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
A new musical rhythm was given to the people : rhythm and representation in black Manhattan -- Do all we could to get what we felt belonged to us by the laws of nature : selling real Negro melodies and marketing authentic black rhythms -- Appreciate the noble and the beautiful within us : ragging uplift with rhythmic transgressions -- The piano man was it! The man in charge : black nightclubs and ragtime identities in New York's Tenderloin -- To promote greater efficiency among its members : ragtime in Times Square and the Clef Club Inc -- Rhythm is something that is born in the Negro : black musical value and the consolidation of "Negro music" -- A new type of Negro musician : social dance and black musical value in prewar America.
9781469622712 9781469622705
African American musicians--New York (State)--New York.
Music and race--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Ragtime music--Social aspects--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Ragtime music--History and criticism.--New York (State)--New York
African Americans--Music--History and criticism.--New York (State)--New York
Electronic Books.
ML3479 / .P763 2015