African American Entertainers In Australia And New Zealand

Author : Bill Egan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476677958

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African American Entertainers in Australia and New Zealand by Bill Egan Pdf

 Eleven African Americans, including a musician, were among the First Fleet of colonial settlers to Australia. In the 150-plus following years, African Americans visiting the region included jubilee singers, vaudevillians, sports stars and general entertainers. This book provides the only comprehensive history of more than 350 African American entertainers in Australia and New Zealand between European settlement in Australia in 1788 and the entry of the United States into World War II in 1941. Famous names covered include boxer Jack Johnson, film star Nina Mae McKinney and jazz singer Eva Taylor. Background stories provide a multidimensional view of the entertainers' time in a place very far from home.

Author : Bill Egan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476637433

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African American Entertainers in Australia and New Zealand by Bill Egan Pdf

 Eleven African Americans, including a musician, were among the First Fleet of colonial settlers to Australia. In the 150-plus following years, African Americans visiting the region included jubilee singers, vaudevillians, sports stars and general entertainers. This book provides the only comprehensive history of more than 350 African American entertainers in Australia and New Zealand between European settlement in Australia in 1788 and the entry of the United States into World War II in 1941. Famous names covered include boxer Jack Johnson, film star Nina Mae McKinney and jazz singer Eva Taylor. Background stories provide a multidimensional view of the entertainers' time in a place very far from home.

Author : Frances Peters-Little,Ann Curthoys,John Docker
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921666650

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Passionate Histories by Frances Peters-Little,Ann Curthoys,John Docker Pdf

This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history. The contributors are a mix of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous scholars, who in different ways examine how the past lives on in the present, as myth, memory, and history. Each chapter throws fresh light on an aspect of history-making by or about Indigenous people, such as the extent of massacres on the frontier, the myth of Aboriginal male idleness, the controversy over Flynn of the Inland, the meaning of the Referendum of 1967, and the policyand practice of Indigenous child removal.

Author : Bernard L. Peterson Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313065033

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Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960 by Bernard L. Peterson Jr. Pdf

This directory includes over 500 African American performers and theater people who have made a significant contribution to the American stage from the early 19th century to the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Entries provide succinct biographical and theatrical information gathered from a variety of sources including library theater and drama collections, dissertations and theses, newspaper and magazine reviews and criticism, theater programs, theatrical memoirs, and earlier performing arts directories. Among the professional artists included in this volume are performers, librettists, lyricists, directors, producers, choreographers, stage managers, and musicians. The individuals profiled represent almost every major category and genre of the professional, semiprofessional, regional, and academic stage including minstrelsy, vaudeville, musical theater, and drama. Persons of historical significance are included as well as those stars and theatrical personalities that were well known during their time but who are relatively forgotten today. This comprehensive volume will appeal to theater and musical theater, Black studies, and American studies scholars. Cross-referenced throughout, this reference also includes an extensive bibliography and appendices of other theater personalities excluded from the main text. Separate indexes list the personalities, teams and partnerships, and performing groups, organizations, and companies.

Author : Darryl Glenn Nettles
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0786414677

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African American Concert Singers Before 1950 by Darryl Glenn Nettles Pdf

Marian Roberts, Roland Hayes, and Paul Robeson were among the most visible early African American concert singers, but they were not the only ones. Many others were involved in the arts as concert singers and, given the times in which they lived, achieved tremendous results in the face of great adversity and helped pave the way for the post-1950 African American vocal artist. Drawn from articles, reviews, programs, biographical sources, and interviews, this work is a survey of the unknown early African American concert singers. Much of the information from periodicals was taken from The New York Amsterdam News, The Chicago Defender, and The New York Age. The book covers the African Americans who came before Roberts, Hayes, and Robeson, and details the opportunities available in Europe for black concert singers.

Author : Charlene B. Regester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106016545656

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Black Entertainers in African American Newspaper Articles: An annotated bibliography of the Chicago defender, the Afro-American (Baltimore), the Los Angeles sentinel, and the New York Amsterdam news, 1910-1950 by Charlene B. Regester Pdf

All forms of American entertainment have been influenced by the participation of African Americans, and some forms have been invented by them, yet for much history that influence and those inventions went undocumented in the white press. For the first half of the twentieth century, the best coverage of blacks in entertainment-especially the developing motion picture industry-was in the newspapers published and circulated by the African American community. This annotated bibliography offers easy access to that coverage in four of the most influential black newspapers in the period from 1910 to 1950: the Chicago Defender, the Afro-American (Baltimore), the Los Angeles Sentinel and the New York Amsterdam News. The chronological arrangement allows the reader to trace developments in entertainment from the early days of motion pictures to mid-century. Quotations from the articles offer a taste of each newspaper's style, and extensive indexing provides quick access to names, titles, and subjects, making the book an invaluable aid to researchers.

Author : Eileen Southern
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:39000005675819

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Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians by Eileen Southern Pdf

"The stimulus this handsomely produced volume will provide to research and teaching may well surpass that offered by Dr. Southern's earlier studies. This major accomplishment belongs in the libraries of all individuals and institutions interested in any aspect of American music." Ethnomusiciology

Author : Rainer E. Lotz
Publisher : Dr Rainer Lotz
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 3980346188

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Black People by Rainer E. Lotz Pdf

Collection of essays concerning how African-American musical idioms were spread across Europe by African-American musicians

Author : Mark Miller
Publisher : Mercury Press (Canada)
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064210290

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Some Hustling This! by Mark Miller Pdf

Some Hustling This!:Taking Jazz to the World, 1914-1929 is a narrative of first encounters, notable events, and significant figures in the internationalization of jazz. The narrative is framed by Louis Mitchell’s career abroad, beginning with his first trip as a drummer with the Southern Symphony Quintette to London in 1914 and concluding with his final attempt as an entrepreneur to operate a nightclub in Paris in 1929. The 15 years of Mitchell’s European sojourn encompassed the Jazz Age, which has been dated from around the time of the end of the First World War in November 1918 to the New York stock market crash of October 1929. Some Hustling This! is the story of the young men and women who took jazz in its formative stages to the world— a story of hope, escape, and wanderlust, success, infamy, and tragedy.

Author : Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don Nilsen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : IND:30000064272085

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Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Humor by Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don Nilsen Pdf

Review: "This unique encyclopedia treats the concepts, persons, themes, and media of 20th-century American humor and humor studies. More than 100 alphabetically arranged entries highlight a broad range of humor-related topics from wit, understatement, and ambiguity to late-night talk shows and the Internet."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001

Author : Joanne Randolph
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766092501

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African American Musicians & Entertainers by Joanne Randolph Pdf

Imagine a world in which gospel, the blues, jazz, R&B, and rock 'n' roll didn't exist. These indigenous American musical forms are the product of, and a moving expression of the African American experience. Musical geniuses and innovators like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, B. B. King, and Jimi Hendrix turned individual and collective histories of suffering and injustice into soul-stirring, monumental art that shattered boundaries, shifted perceptions, and contributed to progress in civil rights. Their efforts were matched by other African Americans in the entertainment field, like Jackie Robinson, Josephine Baker, and Sidney Poitier. A celebration of music, movies, and a growing movement for equality, this collection will inspire, enlighten, and energize teen readers.

Author : Shelley Brunt,Geoff Stahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317270478

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Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand by Shelley Brunt,Geoff Stahl Pdf

Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The volume consists of chapters by leading scholars of Australian and Aotearoan/New Zealand music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Each chapter provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Australian or Aotearoan/New Zealand popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in these countries, followed by chapters that are organized into thematic sections: Place-Making and Music-Making; Rethinking the Musical Event; Musical Transformations: Decline and Renewal; and Global Sounds, Local Identity.

Author : Edgar S. Werner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Elocution
ISBN : CORNELL:31924067333587

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Werner's Voice Magazine by Edgar S. Werner Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005533109

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International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Doris Evans McGinty
Publisher : Columbia College (Chicago)
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060089425

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A Documentary History of the National Association of Negro Musicians by Doris Evans McGinty Pdf