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Article: Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture, 1770s-1920s. (Cultural Topics).
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Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture, 1770s-1920s. By Eileen Southern and Josephine Wright. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000. [xxiii, 299 p. ISBN 0-8153-2875-2. $95.00]
While many facets of African American music history have been examined in detail in recent years, iconography has remained relatively unexplored. This text by Eileen Southern and Josephine Wright is both a valuable resource for anyone interested in African American expressive culture and an Important contribution to the fields of iconography and African American music history. The book contains reproductions of artworks which many readers will find familiar--Henry Ossawa ...