Dvorák to Duke Ellington

A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots
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Hardback, Feb 2004
ISBN13: 9780195098228ISBN10: 0195098226
Traces the great impact that African-American music has had upon American music, from the influence of composer Antonin Dvorák through the 1920s.


That Moaning Saxophone

The Six Brown Brothers and the Dawning of a Musical Craze
$50.00
Hardback, Mar 2004
ISBN13: 9780195165920ISBN10: 0195165926
That Moaning Saxophone recovers the story of the Six Brown Brothers, the sextet often credited with starting the American saxophone craze.


Louisiana Hayride

Radio and Roots Music along the Red River
$45.00
Hardback, Nov 2004
ISBN13: 9780195167511ISBN10: 0195167511
Shreveport's Louisiana Hayride played a pivotal role not only in launching the careers of performers such as Elvis, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Slim Whitman, Jim Reeves, Webb Pierce, and Kitty Wells, but also in transforming American popular music as we know it.


Pioneers of Jazz

The Story of the Creole Band
$40.00
Hardback, Apr 2005
ISBN13: 9780195161311ISBN10: 0195161319
The first book to explore the the Creole Band's role in bringing jazz from New Orleans to the rest of America


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