Doug Seroff: 7 books
Ragged but Right
Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. "Coon songs," with...
The Original Blues
The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Blues Book of the Year —Living Blues
Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B–Certificate of Merit (2018)
With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on...
Ragged but Right
Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. "Coon songs," with their ugly...
Out of Sight
The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
"A product of old-fashioned, back-wearying, foundational scholarship, yet very readable, this book is certain to feature importantly in future studies of early jazz and its prehistory. Highly recommended." --Library Journal"This volume makes possible the study of the rise of black music in the...
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals...
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals...
Out of Sight
The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
A landmark study, based on thousands of music-related references mined by the authors from a variety of contemporaneous sources, especially African American community newspapers, Out of Sight examines musical personalities, issues, and events in context. It confronts the inescapable marketplace concessions...