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Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows,
Ragged but Right Black Traveling Shows Coon Songs and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz - American Made Music
Author: Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff
The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. "Coon songs," with their ugly name, defined ragtime for the masses, and playe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781617036453
ISBN-10: 1617036455
Publication Date: 11/1/2012
Pages: 472
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Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Book Type: Paperback
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