The black and white of American popular music. From slavery to World War II.

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Lee, Vera, 1923-. The black and white of American popular music. From slavery to World War II. Rochester, Vermont : Schenkman Books, 2007, xii, 363pp., PAPERBACK, very good but quite tightly bound with razor thin inner margin, 2-inch square bookstore label on front cover. CONTENTS: Black music in a white world -- Discovery : from Black culture to white commodity -- Arrival : the color of ragtime -- The white female : from reality to song -- The African-American female : from reality to song -- Breaking in : musical comedy from the turn of the century to the Depression -- Crossing over : singers and songwriters -- Quest for a public : race records and Tin Pan Alley publishers -- A rocky road : barricades and breakthroughs -- Starting up : early jazz and dance bands -- Big bands : the Black pace setters -- Big bands : the white presence -- The fall of swing, the rise of bop -- Critics and controversy -- The dance connection -- Conclusions. 9780870470776 ISBN 0870470779. N° de ref. del artículo 40921

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