William L. Dawson

Gwynne Kuhner Brown (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08806-3 (ISBN)

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William L. Dawson is recognized for his genre-defining choral spirituals and for his Negro Folk Symphony, a masterpiece enjoying a twenty-first-century renaissance. Gwynne Kuhner Brown’s engaging and tirelessly researched biography reintroduces a musical leader whose legacy is more important today than ever. Born in 1899, Dawson studied at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He worked as a church, jazz, and orchestral musician in Kansas City and Chicago in the 1920s while continuing his education as a composer. He then joined the Tuskegee faculty, where for 25 years he led the Tuskegee Institute Choir to national prominence through performances of spirituals at the opening of Radio City Music Hall, on radio and television, and at the White House. The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski premiered Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony in 1934.

Engaging and long overdue, William L. Dawson celebrates a pioneering Black composer whose contributions to African American music, history, and education inspire performers and audiences to this day.

Gwynne Kuhner Brown is a professor of music at the University of Puget Sound.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Early Life

Chapter 2. Tuskegee

Chapter 3. Vocal Music

Chapter 4. Instrumental Music

Chapter 5. After Tuskegee

Notes

Select Discography

Works

Sources and Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	American Composers
Zusatzinfo	15 black & white photographs, 7 music examples
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 216 mm
Gewicht	254 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10	0-252-08806-9 / 0252088069
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08806-3 / 9780252088063
Zustand	Neuware