- File Size: 2849 KB
- Print Length: 238 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0810835940
- Publisher: Scarecrow Press (April 30, 1999)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0037W57UQ
This work focuses on the debate surrounding the American blind black
pianist Blind Tom. Born into slavery in 1849, was a musicain of amazing
skill. The author asks questions about the talents of black performers,
their ability to weather the dual stigmatization of racism and (in Blind
Tom's case) physical disability to produce music not just worthy of
rememberance but of importance to the tradition of American arts from
which they were simultaneously excluded. The author doesn't just tell a
tragic tale of a black musical prodigy but also investigates tangled
issues of race, racism, musical skill, American culture, and the
collective stereotypes that pockmarked America after the Civil War.
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