“The Brightest Star”: Aida Overton Walker in the Age of Ragtime and Cakewalk
1993; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 18; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s036123330000497x
ISSN1471-6399
Autores Tópico(s)Race, History, and American Society
ResumoA golden period of African- American music and dance nourished from the mid-1890s until the First World War. Minstrelsy had been the country's leading vernacular entertainment for half a century, but it was now in decline. Its sentimentality and nostalgia appeared passé and rustic in the more sophisticated and urbanized Gilded Age. An old order was breaking up and a new, looser, freer order taking its place, one that called for a faster beat.
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