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Alec Wilder says of the song in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950: In 1927, 'I'm Coming Virginia,' with music by Donald Heywood was another lively rhythm song. The main strain is a series of strong rhythmic imitative phrases which establish the swinging character of the song, but I find the release and its continuous motion ...
African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]
Archive.org Collection of George W. Johnson's music four different (1898–1902) recordings of The Laughing Song and one each of The Laughing Coon and The Whistling Song. Salem, James M., "African American Songwriters and Performers in the Coon Song Era: Black Innovation and American Popular Music", The Columbia Journal of American Studies (CJAS).
Black innovators play a critical role in the history of creating and developing of the many games and components that built the gaming industry. The post 10 Black Innovators Who Changed the Gaming ...
The achievements of George Washington Carver, the 19th century scientist credited with hundreds of inventions, including 300 uses for peanuts, have landed him in American history textbooks. Among ...
Here are five early Black innovators whose contributions reshaped the agricultural landscape: Henry Blair (1807-1860) Only the second Black man to be awarded a U.S. patent (Thomas L. Jennings, who ...
The song is part of the Great American Songbook, and Alec Wilder included it in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950, even though it was composed two years after that period. Wilder gave two reasons for making this exception: (1) "it is one of the last free-flowing, native, and natural melodies in the grand pop ...
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