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Will Marion Cook (1869-1944): Shows List And Songs And Instrumental Numbers, Peter M. Lefferts
Will Marion Cook (1869-1944): Shows List And Songs And Instrumental Numbers, Peter M. Lefferts
Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications
The present material supplements my on-line document “Chronology and Itinerary of the Career of Will Marion Cook.” That put into some kind of order a number of biographical research notes, principally drawing upon newspaper and genealogy databases. It is one in a series ---“Chronology and Itinerary of the Career of”---devoted to a small number of African American musicians active ca. 1900-1950. In those other documents, compositions were interleaved with other kinds of references following a chronological sequence. Instead of doing the same for Cook, his shows and songs and instrumental numbers, spanning a creative career of almost a half century …