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Freedom music : Wales, emancipation and jazz 1850 -1950
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- Creator
- Jen Wilson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2019
- Physical Details
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- xxiv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781786834089, 1786834081, 9781786834072, 1786834073
- OCLC
- on1061090973
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- The life, times and music of Swansea abolitionist Jessie Donaldson (1799-1889) -- Doing the plantation walkaround skedaddle -- The Fisk Jubilee Singers in Wales, freed slaves and their songs -- Ragtime and the cake walk: on stage and in the workhouse -- The First World War: ragtime trenches and suffragettes -- Café society: the Jazz Age -- Cutting a rug to the Second World War: Jews and 'Negro morals' -- Fair treatment for the 'fair sex'? -- Conclusion