The Survival of African Music in America
Nonfiction, History, Americas, North America, United States
| Author: | Jeannette R. Murphy, Francis H. Jenks | ISBN: | 9782366595321 |
| Publisher: | LM Publishers | Publication: | November 14, 2017 |
| Imprint: | LM Publishers | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jeannette R. Murphy, Francis H. Jenks |
| ISBN: | 9782366595321 |
| Publisher: | LM Publishers |
| Publication: | November 14, 2017 |
| Imprint: | LM Publishers |
| Language: | English |
"Several years from now, when every vestige of slavery has disappeared, and even its existence has become a fading memory, America, and probably Europe, will suddenly awake to the sad fact that we have irrevocably lost a veritable mine of wealth through our failure to appreciate and study from a musician's standpoint the beautiful African music, whose rich stores will then have gone forever from our grasp..."
- Would America have been America without the Negro people (and the Negro Music)? – (W.E.B. DuBois)
"Several years from now, when every vestige of slavery has disappeared, and even its existence has become a fading memory, America, and probably Europe, will suddenly awake to the sad fact that we have irrevocably lost a veritable mine of wealth through our failure to appreciate and study from a musician's standpoint the beautiful African music, whose rich stores will then have gone forever from our grasp..."
- Would America have been America without the Negro people (and the Negro Music)? – (W.E.B. DuBois)
