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New York:: Exposition Press,, (1968). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a good dust jacket (foxing to endpapers, several chips to the edges and fold of front flap) . First printing. A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of black spirituals as they lead to African-American classical composers. Jackson himself was a journalist, author, composer, community activist, and postal worker. Among other things, in 1978, he became the Galveston's first Black postmaster, where he served until 1984. While enrolled at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Jackson grew close to composer William L. Dawson, then a professor and director of the schools choir, known as the Golden Voices and later he Jackson founded Tuskegee's alumni choir and served as interim director for the Golden Voices between 1992-96 and 2000-04. Bibliography. 54 pp.
The Songs Of Our Years. A Study Of Negro Folk Music by Jackson, Clyde Owen - 1968
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The Songs Of Our Years. A Study Of Negro Folk Music
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NY: Exposition Press. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good with spine slant, fairly clean ex. lib. .
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- Publisher Exposition Press
- Place of Publication NY
- Date Published 1968
- Keywords Music, Spirituals, Jazz, Gospel
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New York:: Exposition Press,, (1968). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (small chips to the dj) . First printing. A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of black spirituals as they lead to African-American classical composers. Jackson himself was a journalist, author, composer, community activist, and postal worker. Among other things, in 1978, he became the Galveston's first Black postmaster, where he served until 1984. While enrolled at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Jackson grew close to composer William L. Dawson, then a professor and director of the schools choir, known as the Golden Voices and later he Jackson founded Tuskegees alumni choir and served as interim director for the Golden Voices between 1992-96 and 2000-04. Bibliography. 54 pp.
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