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Harry T. Burleigh: from the spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance

Part of the Music in American Life series
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Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) played a leading role in American music and culture in the twentieth century.

Celebrated for his arrangements of spirituals, Burleigh was also the first African American composer to create a significant body of art song.

An international roster of opera and recital singers performed his works and praised them as among the best of their time.

Jean E. Snyder traces Burleigh's life from his Pennsylvania childhood through his fifty-year tenure as soloist at St George's Episcopal Church in Manhattan.

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University of Illinois Press
0252098102 / 9780252098109
eBook (EPUB)
780.92
20/04/2017
English
413 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Previously issued in print: 2016 Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 22, 2017).