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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Sandra Jean Graham
1. Toward a Philosophy of Black Music Scholarship / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.
2. Backstage: “White folks do as they please, and the darkies do as they can” / Katrina Dyonne Thomp
3. The Origin and Development of the Black Musical Theater: A Preliminary Report / Eileen Southern
4. Innovators, Imitators, and a Jubilee Industry / Sandra Jean Graham
5. Rural Black String Band Music / Charles Wolfe
6. Nashville Washboard Band: Something Out of Nothing / Stephen Wade
7. The Blues Tradition in St. Louis / Harriet Ottenheimer
8. James Reese Europe and the Prehistory of Jazz / R. Reid Badger
9. Before Louis: When Fletcher Henderson Was the “Paul Whiteman of the Race" / Jeffrey Magee
10. Sweeping through the City: Thomas A. Dorsey and the Gospel Nexus (1932–1933) / Robert M. Marovich
11. “My Soul’s Been Anchored in de Lord” and Black Satin Clothes at the Fair / Rae Linda Brown
List of Original Publications
Contributors
Index
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