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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.
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.
African Americans—famous and anonymous alike—have helped shape popular musical genres ranging from jazz and blues to rock 'n' roll and rap. This book provides a vivid account of that process, beginning with the work songs and spirituals of slaves and continuing up to the present. African-American Musicians tells the stories of figures such as bluesman Robert Johnson, whose guitar playing was so extraordinary that people said he must have made a deal with the devil; jazz great Duke Ellington, considered one of America's greatest composers and bandleaders; classical singer Marian Anderson, who struck a blow for civil rights with her music; Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop"; and many, many more.
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.
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.
Germans and African Americans by Larry A. Greene,Anke Ortlepp Pdf
Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth. Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences. In the nineteenth century, German immigrants to America and to such communities as Charleston and Cincinnati interacted within the boundaries of their old-world experiences and ideas and within surrounding regional notions of a nation fracturing over slavery. In the post-Civil War era in America through the Weimar era, Germany became a place to which African American entertainers, travelers, and intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois could go to escape American racism and find new opportunities. With the rise of the Third Reich, Germany became the personification of racism, and African Americans in the 1930s and 1940s could use Hitler's evil example to goad America about its own racist practices. Postwar West Germany regained the image as a land more tolerant to African American soldiers than America. African Americans were important to Cold War discourse, especially in the internal ideological struggle between Communist East Germany and democratic West Germany. Unlike many other countries in Europe, Germany has played a variety of different and conflicting roles in the African American narrative and relationship with Europe. It is this diversity of roles that adds to the complexity of African American and German interactions and mutual perceptions over time.
Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to it reveal the attitudes of an era or generation. Always a major preoccupation of students, music is often ignored by teaching professionals, who might profitably channel this interest to further understandings of American social history and such diverse fields as sociology, political science, literature, communications, and business as well as music. In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars, educators, and writers from a variety of fields and perspectives relate topics concerning twentieth-century popular music to issues of politics, class, economics, race, gender, and the social context. The focus throughout is to place music in societal perspective and encourage investigation of the complex issues behind the popular tunes, rhythms, and lyrics.
African-American Entertainment in Baltimore by Rosa Pryor-Trusty Pdf
African-American Entertainment in Baltimore captures the brilliance of the city's musical heritage from 1930 to 1980. This educational and entertaining volume invites readers to take a visual trip down memory lane to the days when Pennsylvania Avenue, the heart of the city's African-American community, vibrated with life. Celebrated within these pages are entertainers such as The Ink Spots, Sonny Til & the Orioles, Illinois Jacquet, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Sammy Davis Jr., Slappy White, Pearl Bailey, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald; The Avenue's hottest nightspots and theaters including the legendary Royal Theater, The Regent Theater, the Sphinx, and Club Casino; and the DJs and promoters who helped cultivate the city's musical talents.
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa ; South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean ; The United States and Canada ; Europe ; Oceania by Ellen Koskoff Pdf
The critical importance of past for the present--of music histories in local and global forms--asserts itself. The history of world music, as each chapter makes clear, is one of critical moments and paradigm shifts.
Black History Month: African American Actors, Singers and Musicians by C. Mahoney Pdf
This workbook has 110 internet investigations of African-American actors and actresses, singers and musicians. Students search for information online about ACTORS like Will Smith, Chadwick Boseman, Kenan Thompson, Morgan Freeman, Donald Glover, Ice Cube, Michael B. Smith, James Earl Jones, Paul Robeson, Forrest Whitaker, Louis Gossett, Jr., Danny Glover, Anthony Mackie, Ossie Davis, Taye Diggs, Michael Ealy, Mekhi Phifer, Derek Luke, Demetrius Shipp, Jr., Tyrese Gibson, David Oyelowo, Kevin Hart, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Wesley Snipes, Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Damon Wayans, and Martin Lawrence. Students search for information online about ACTRESSES like Amandla Stenberg, Oprah Winfrey, Queen Latifah, Dorothy Dandridge, Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, Jada Pinkett Smith, Kerry Washington, Halle Berry, Hattie McDaniel, Zoe Saldana, Naomi Harris, Rosario Dawson, Jennifer Hudson, Nicole Beharie, Keke Palmer, Zoë Kravitz, Meagan Good, Yaya DaCosta, Esther Rolle, Juanita Moore, Mary Alice, Cicely Tyson, Ruby Dee, Nathalie Joanne Emmanuel, Pam Grier, Kimberly Elise, Lynn Whitfield, Butterfly McQueen, and Diana Sands. Students search for information online about SINGERS like Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Janet Jackson, Nina Simone, James Brown, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Donna Summer, Mahalia Jackson, Natalie Cole, R. Kelly, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliot, Snoop Dogg, Marion Anderson, Aaliyah, and Marvin Gaye. Students search for information online about MUSICIANS like Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, B. B. King, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Chuck Berry, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, José White, Questlove, Lenny Kravitz, Max Roach, Fats Domino, Shirley Horn, Art Tatum, James DePriest, William Grant Still, Joshua Coyne, Bobby McFerrin, Margaret Patrick, Chanda Dancy, Charles Mingus, Bob Marley, and Thelonious Monk. This workbook is part of a series: Black History Month: African-American Astronauts, Inventors and Scientists Black History Month: African American Actors, Singers and Musicians Black History Month: African American Artists, Authors, Athletes and Politicians
Author : Michelle R. Scott Publisher : University of Illinois Press Page : 207 pages File Size : 48,6 Mb Release : 2023-02-28 Category : History ISBN : 9780252054037
Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for “tough on black artists.” But the Theater Owner’s Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry and provided a training ground for icons like Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis Jr., the Nicholas Brothers, Count Basie, and Butterbeans and Susie. Michelle R. Scott’s institutional history details T.O.B.A.’s origins and practices while telling the little-known stories of the managers, producers, performers, and audience members involved in the circuit. Looking at the organization over its eleven-year existence (1920–1931), Scott places T.O.B.A. against the backdrop of what entrepreneurship and business development meant in black America at the time. Scott also highlights how intellectuals debated the social, economic, and political significance of black entertainment from the early 1900s through T.O.B.A.’s decline during the Great Depression. Clear-eyed and comprehensive, T.O.B.A. Time is a fascinating account of black entertainment and black business during a formative era.
