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Author:

Gilbert, David W. (David Walker), 1975- author.

Title:

The product of our souls : ragtime, race, and the birth of the Manhattan musical marketplace / David Gilbert.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiv, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

African Americans--New York--New York--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Ragtime music--New York--New York--History and criticism.
Ragtime music--History--New York--New York--History--20th century.
Music and race--History--New York--History--20th century.
African American musicians--New York.--New York.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index.

Contents:

A new musical rhythm was given to the people : rhythm and representation in black Manhattan -- Do all we could to get what we felt belonged to us by the laws of nature : selling real Negro melodies and marketing authentic black rhythms -- Appreciate the noble and the beautiful within us : ragging uplift with rhythmic transgressions -- The piano man was it! The man in charge : black nightclubs and ragtime identities in New York's Tenderloin -- To promote greater efficiency among its members : ragtime in Times Square and the Clef Club Inc -- Rhythm is something that is born in the Negro : black musical value and the consolidation of "Negro music" -- A new type of Negro musician : social dance and black musical value in prewar America.

ISBN:

1469622696
9781469622699 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)887450934

LCCN:

2014030758

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)