Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved - Softcover

Southall, Geneva Handy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810845458 ISBN 13: 9780810845459

Verlag: Scarecrow Press, 2002

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[Southall] writes with passion and considerable knowledge of the subject. * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association * Blind Tom is a work of empirical research, sympathy and engagement... [it] illustrates the continuing strengths and virtues of "traditional" scholarship in the field of musicological studies. * Journal of American Studies *

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Blind Tom was the stage name of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind black pianist born into slavery in 1849. Noted by many musical authorities to be a musician of amazing skill, expressive playing, and incredible memory, he was nonetheless considered by his "admirers" still nearer to "animals" than other human beings, and was exploited by a series of whites after the Civil War for their own financial comfort. In this focused, consequential study, Geneva Southall reformulates the debate surrounding Blind Tom and expands its dimensions significantly. Southall asks questions about the talents of black performers and musicians, the relationship between black culture and economic prosperity, and the personal ability of talented black musicians to weather the dual stigmatization of racism and (in Blind Tom's case) physical disability to produce music not just worthy of remembrance, but of importance to the tradition of American arts from which they have been excluded. (Originally printed in cloth in 1999)

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• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0810845458
• ISBN 13: 9780810845459
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224