...The State Department used America’s predominantly Christian religion as part of its cultural presentations strategy. Many musical performers, including African American, white, and mixed choirs and even opera singers, performed Negro spirituals at the Department’s request. American musicians sang...

...This chapter uses two key examples to complete the discussion of the village feature of chocolate cities. First, the life and time of great migrant Arthur Lee Robinson demonstrates the importance of place, rivers, and familial black enclaves throughout the United States. Second, the sketch "Negro...

...This chapter studies the earliest known commentary on Still's work. This commentary, which was written by Forsythe, is also the only extended commentary that explains Still's music from a New Negro, Africanist position. It shows that Forsythe's judgments on Still and his work were based on music...

...While working with the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), Clark was able to manage to take out time to work at his favorite jazz clubs. There was a buzz around the show that they had to hire another Negro. Clark was handed the responsibility of finding a person who was suitable to the band's...

... attributable to any march on Washington—the first protest to fulfill the original hopes of Carl Browne and Jacob Coxey for their immediate federal action. This result is particularly striking because the Negro March of 1941 never actually happened. At the last minute, the march's organizers decided to call...

... Maquipucuna, the Alambi Valley, Cerro Campana, Cerro Cachillacta, Cerro Negro, and all of the land east of the road between Tandayapa, Nanegalito, and Nanegal. The total area included is approximately 22,000 hectares, with an elevational range of 1100–2800m. vascular plants Maquipucuna Ecuador Cantón Quito...

... pupils with the aim to achieve an authentic American school of composition. According to Henry Krehbiel, Dvořák urged the Americans to submit their indigenous music, such as Indian melodies and Negro spirituals, to the “beautiful treatment in the higher forms of art.” According to this chapter...

...This chapter studies the New Negro Movement and focuses on certain aspects of the black music-making experience, including the contributions made by the city of Los Angeles to the early development of jazz. It also shows that the black population of Los Angeles increased during the start...

...This chapter introduces Harold Bruce Forsythe, a musician who became one of Still's enthusiasts and commentators. It shows that while Forsythe's comments on Still were largely ignored by the popular writers of the Harlem Renaissance/New Negro movement, he had significant artistic collaborations...

...The National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) maintained a staff of 175 musicians and Clark was to be the first Negro musician in the group. Although apprehensive, Clark was proud to be representing his race. Clark describes NBC as a great band, in which he was immediately propelled into the world...

... in Argentina was affected by a growing feminist movement and by labor movements in urban areas. “La dama de negro” combines several features of Storni's journalism. Although Storni herself is well known as a public figure and as a poet, her links to the history of women of her lifetime deserve to be explored...

.... Forsythe planned to discuss Still in the first two sections, while the third and fourth sections were for an analysis of Negro Folk materials and pure African folk materials, and a discussion of the music itself. Forsythe Harold Bruce 1906–1976 “Personal Notes” Still “Plan for a Biography of Still...

... civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, which led to the U.S. Voting Rights Act. Finding Buck McHenry concerns a youth-league baseball player who discovers that the janitor in his school was once a star in the negro baseball leagues. Nightjohn is the story of an escaped...

.... Lawson's dalliance with Negro theater was consistent with his Party's notion that African Americans constituted a formidable foe against the status quo. Rain was pouring down relentlessly at one minute after midnight on 9 April 1951, as John Howard Lawson ambled to an automobile that was to whisk him away...