Hot from Harlem : twelve African American entertainers, 1890-1960 /

"From the days of minstrelsy to Black Broadway, this book is the story of African American entertainment as seen through the eyes of its most famous as well as some of its most obscure practitioners. The book forms a chronological arc that moves from the beginning of African American participat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reed, Bill, 1941-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2010]
Edition:	Rev. ed.
Subjects:	African Americans > Music > History and criticism. African American musicians. African Americans in the performing arts.

Table of Contents:

The big picture. The birth of the black musical : Will Marion Cook
The queens of Toby time : the Whitman Sisters
The color line : Billy McClain
Over here-- over there : Valaida Snow
Renaissance woman : Nora Holt
All that jazz : Billy Strayhorn
The movies : Hazel Scott
Forcing the issue : Dinah Washington
On Broadway : Sammy Davis, Jr.
Zeroing in. Full-service showfolk : Leonard Reed, Demas Dean, Dean, Frances Williams
Stops along the way : three cities
Some subjects for further research.