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1959

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The Negro In Music In Saint Louis, John Cleophus Cotter Jun 1959

The Negro In Music In Saint Louis, John Cleophus Cotter

Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is mainly a chronological account of the growth and development of the Negro musical movement in Saint Louis, Missouri. Included is an introductory background concerning the Negro in Music in America, and an account of the individuals who helped foster the development in Saint Louis. There is also a special chapter on Jazz and the Negro as a Jazz Musician in Saint Louis.

Many books and periodicals have been written on the development of music and of the Negro music of America, but I do not know of a comprehensive text written on the growth of a Negro …