Title: The Negro and His Music Author: Locke, Alain Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: The Associates in Negro Folk Education Date: 1936 Description: 5x8" in original decorative wrappers. 142 pp. First Edition. Bronze Booklet Number 2. Howard University Professor Alain Locke was the “philosophical architect” and “ideological genius” of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s. His book traces African-American music from slave spirituals and “minstrelsy” through Ragtime and Jazz to such “Negro Musicians To-day” as internationally-acclaimed singer Marian Anderson. Lot Amendments Condition: Tiny chips at wrapper corners, a faint dampstin at wrapper spine; else very good. Item number: 241857
Title: The Negro and His Music Author: Locke, Alain Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: The Associates in Negro Folk Education Date: 1936 Description: 5x8" in original decorative wrappers. 142 pp. First Edition. Bronze Booklet Number 2. Howard University Professor Alain Locke was the “philosophical architect” and “ideological genius” of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s. His book traces African-American music from slave spirituals and “minstrelsy” through Ragtime and Jazz to such “Negro Musicians To-day” as internationally-acclaimed singer Marian Anderson. Lot Amendments Condition: Tiny chips at wrapper corners, a faint dampstin at wrapper spine; else very good. Item number: 241857
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