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Summary: "A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"-how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvorák prophesied a "great and noble" school of American classical music based on the searing "negro melodies" he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would found popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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Summary: "... a comprehensive look at race relations in the United States as seen through the prism of music from slavery to the present"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Billboard Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.89 PHISummary: "Una extraordinaria selección de obras esenciales, en su mayoría inéditas, que celebran la fuerza, el talento y la diversidad de las mujeres latinas, y tienden puentes que nos conectan las unas con las otras. Desde la prosa implacable de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz hasta los poderosos cantos de la chamana María Sabina; desde las luchas revolucionarias de Audre Lorde, Lolita Lebrón y Berta Cáceres...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsEspañol 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 HIJFischer, David Hackett
Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 FISSummary: "In the rush to redefine the place of black Americans in contemporary society, many radical activists and academics have mounted a campaign to destroy traditional American history and replace it with a politicized version that few would recognize. According to the new radical orthodoxy, the United States was founded as a racist nation--and everything that has happened throughout our history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emancipation Books 2021