Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943
Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943 traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans'' embrace of classical music around the turn of the previous century, from the collapse of Reconstruction to the death of composer/conductor R. Nathaniel Dett, whose music epitomized "uplift."
After Reconstruction many black leaders had retreated from emphasizing "inalienab...
Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943 traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans'' embrace of classical music around the turn of the previous century, from the collapse of Reconstruction to the death of composer/conductor R. Nathaniel Dett, whose music epitomized "uplift."
After Reconstruction many black leaders had retreated from emphasizing "inalienab...
