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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"African American musicians"”.
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Historicising the Popular: Trans-Atlantic Exchanges between African American and Local South African Musicians during the Cultural Boycott, c. 1960-1993
This dissertation examines the history of over 70 African American musicians’ tours to South Africa between 1960 and 1993. This largely underexplored history also includes the experiences of South African musicians who accompanied them on these tours. The tours were often perceived by the media and …
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Musicians Association Local 533 of the American Federation of Musicians, and Its Role in the Development of Black Music in Buffalo, New York
History of the Colored Musicians Union in Buffalo, New York. This thesis consists of two parts. The first is a chronological narrative which encompasses the full origin, growth, and demise of Local 533. It is modeled after the form of a jazz tune; it contains an intro, opening head, six choruses …
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The Independent Turn in Soviet-Era Russian Poetry: How Dmitry Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman and Evgeny Rein Became the 'Avvakumites' of Leningrad
The first post-World War II generation of Soviet Russian writers was faced with a crisis of language even more pervasive and serious than the "Crisis of Symbolism" at the beginning of the 20th century: the level of abstraction and formulaic speech used in public venues had become such that words …