Dvoιrβak to Duke Ellington a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Antonin Dvoιrβak comes to America
- America and Negro music
- Dvoιrβak's symphony "From the New World"
- The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
- The National Conservatory of Music of America
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Clorilindy, and "The talented tenth"
- James Reese Europe
- George Gershwin and African American music
- Leonard Bernstein
- Gershwin's "Rhapsody in blue"
- The Clef Club concert
- Will Marion Cook
- George Antheil's "Ballet mβecanique"
- Bernstein's Mass
- Duke Ellington
- Ellington's "Queenie pie"
- Ellington's "Black, brown and beige".