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[Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff] ☆ Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series) ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series) “Coon songs,” with their ugly name, defined ragtime for the masses, and played a transitional role in the commercial ascendancy of blues and jazz.In Ragged but Right, now in paperback, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff investigate black musical comedy productions, sideshow bands, and itinerant tented minstrel shows. The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigate
| Title | : | Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.97 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1617036455 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 472 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-18 |
| Language | : | English |
“Coon songs,” with their ugly name, defined ragtime for the masses, and played a transitional role in the commercial ascendancy of blues and jazz.In Ragged but Right, now in paperback, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff investigate black musical comedy productions, sideshow bands, and itinerant tented minstrel shows. The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. Not to be confused with their nineteenth-century white predecessors, black, tented minstrel shows such as the Rabbit’s Foot and Silas Green from New Orleans provided blues and jazz-heavy
. He co-wrote (with Doug Seroff) the award-winning book Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 and the forthcoming To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition, both published by the University Press of Mississippi.Doug Seroff is an independent scholar living in Greenbrier, Tennessee. Lynn Abbott works for the Hogan Jaz
10 stars, a necessary book covering important stuff Tony Thomas I have not finished this book, but I feel it is so important that I want to review it now and not wait. Most people who think they know about the history of Black and general popular music, jazz, blues, and old time music do not know anything about the material that is covered in this book. Without th. A said Forgotten and Long Misrepresented History. Simply essential to anyone trying to understand either the history of American popular music or the complex and contradictory history of "race" in America. This book is a treasure trove of material that has largely been obfuscated and misrepresented by later historians and critics. We very much need m. "Essential to my research" according to Mr. M. Haymes. An amazing book from Abbott & Seroff. This is so essential to my research into a forthcoming book on the great vaudeville blues singer, Clara Smith from Spartanburg, South Carolina. In fact this book is so well-written and researched I am inspired to get their previous tome: "Out Of Sight"
From the Publisher This groundbreaking study of "coon songs" and ragtime in black musical comedies, circus sideshows, and tented minstrel shows --- Offers one of the first books to confront the "coon song" phenomenon head-on and trace its importance in the formation of blues and jazz --- Provides the first sweeping survey of black band and minstrel companies attached to circus sideshows --- Creates a body of dependable information on black tented minstrel shows --- Follows the very successful Out of Sight which became a required purchase for anyone interested in the history of American popular music
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