Rainer E. Lotz
Black people: Entertainers of African Descent in Europe and Germany (Hardcover)
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- The revelations of Eileen Southern's Music of Black Americans (1971) anticipated the rise and generally accepted legitimacy of American studies that was stimulated by the United States bicentennial. Now in its third edition (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), this classic provoked innovations in repertory and education and focused scholarly attention on areas previously unexplored. An important figure in this new scholarship is Rainer E. Lotz. Although an economist by profession, he is a specialist in black music of early-twentieth-century Europe. For the present volume, he has carefully consulted European newspapers as well as materials one might not readily locate at major American research libraries. Each of the fifteen biographical chapters includes a detailed chronology of performances in the United States and Europe (here is where access to the newspapers plays a most impressive role) and, as applicable, a discography. Musicians Lotz discusses include the Bohee brothers, from a musical Canadian family and active in minstrelsy. James (1844-1897) and George (1857-1930s) secured their reputations particularly as banjo virtuosos. As members of Haverly's Genuine Colored Minstrels they toured England in 1881 in the company of James Bland and Sam Lucas. If the Bohees made a cylinder recording in 1892 as suspected, it would likely be the first by any black artist. Seth Weeks, composer and plectral performer, was born in Chicago around 1866. He was active in Europe from 1900, not only in England, but seemingly also in Russia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, France, and Belgium. His first recordings date from about 1902. In that same year, mezzosoprano Belle Davis made her first recordings. After a decade of association with Dora Dean, Inez Clough, and J. Rosamond Johnson, she moved in 1902 to England. In the company of her "Piccaninnies" (preteen boys) she appeared in at least two films. She toured throughout the British Isles and as far east on the Continent as St. Petersburg and Prague. Pete Hampton and his wife, Laura Bowman, reached London in 1903 with Will...
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