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Burleigh ' lega y was to provide ac ompaniment in
the modern form which would detract nothing from the
emotional appeal and impact of the pirit of the mu ic .
White co m po ed for violin. voice, piano, c horu .
band , orche tra, c hamber e emble and organ . He wa
the re ipient f m ny honor d uring hi lifetime , and
achieved hi highe t recognition after 1920.
ROBERT NATHANIEL DETT (1882-11943) i chiefly
recogni zed (during the period repre ented in thi paper)
for hi leader hip of the H ampton In titu te hoir
beginning in 191 . While d ire tor there, Hampton en -
joyed recogn ition for it .high le el of performer ; and
the group appeared at a fe tival held at the Library of
on re , at arne ie Hall in ew York, nd ym -
phony Hall in B ton .
Dett wa b rn in the lave- founded ommunit of
Drummondville, anada, and received hi degree in
m·u ic from beriin . He won the Bowdoi n Prize at Har-
va rd for an e say "The manci pation of Negro Mu ic, "
a nd the F ranci Boot Pri ze for m u ic . H e re eived
ho norary degree from the a tma n chool of Mu ic,
Oberlin, and Harvard .
The cla i al f rm wa not the onl genre in which the
Black ationali t worked .
The mu h malig ned min trel evol ed int the mo re
soph i ated for m of mu ical omedy, and the fir I real
departure from min trel y wa a play with a thin tory
line that u cd pretty Blac k women ; the Octoroon,
pre ented b a wh ite manager named John I ham in
1895 . His ucce encouraged him 10 produce, one year
later, Oriental America. It wa the fir tall Blac k a t to
play o n Broadway .
Inevitably, a ll Black present ations would fo ll ow t he
sa me course and c atapult 10 fa me evera l Bi a k com -
po er .
CLARENCE CAMERON WHITE
U.S. Bank is in the
real estate business.
. : . Bank is in th bu sin ss f h !ping famili
build th •ir Ir ams wit h ' mpl t h m I an
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Member F. D.I. •.
Mic rof ilm e xce rpt from Th e S alt Lake
Tribune. J . Gordon McPherson once served
as se c re ta ry of the Western Negro Press
Association; the association was ound~ in
1895.
CLARENCE CAMERON WHITE (1879- 1960) wa
born in lark vi ll e, Te nn e ee a nd received h is un -
der graduate degree fro m H o wa rd . In ad d it io n to a
degree in mu sic (violin) fro m Oberlin in 1901 , he studied
compo itio n with oleridge-Tay lor in London, and
violin with the Rus ian violini I Zacharewit ch. Prior 10
going t
ngland, he taught at the (Negro) Washington
on ervato ry of Music and in Wa hington' publi c
chool . While in London ( 1900- 11 ), White wa fir t
violini t with the tring Player lub .
p n hi return 10 the State , he went on tour oc-
ca ionally accompanied by hi wife at the piano . He
opened a mu ic tudio and became t he director gf the
Victoria on ert Orche train Bo ton.
Whit e began compo ing in earne t after hi ret urn to
the states, but it was no t unt il 19 18 that he began u ing
pirit ual a thematic material.
Bandana ketches, publi hed in 19 18, wa
com-
pilation of four piritual for piano a nd violin . Lovell
tate that , "the fir t wa a chant, obody Knows de
Trouble I' ve een; the econd a lament, I'm Troubled In
M111d; the third wa s a lave ong, Man y Thousand
Gone; and the fourth, a egro dance, Sometimes I Feel
Like A Motherle
hild. The fir t wa recorded and
performed by Fritz Krei lin, the renowned violini t.
a
SORN IN THE BACKWOODS OF LOUIS-
IANA, MR. HUDDIE LEDBETTER WAS A WAN-
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R. NATHANIEL DETT
DERING LABORER FOR FORTY YEARS/ HE
BOASTEu Ht:. ~OULD P !CK A HAL F TON OF
COTTON A DAY , NEARLY SIX FEETTALL
AND SOL ID MUSCLE 1 HE BECAME WORLD-
FAMOUS SINGING THE AUTHENTIC FOLK
SON GS OF THE DEEP SOUTH/THOUGH HE
NEVER STUDIED MUSIC,HE HAO MANY RE-
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JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1873 - 1954) wa
graduated from Atlanta and olumbia niver itie .
Although primarily known a a poet , tate man and
civil right leader , he collaborated with hi brother and
Bob ole a lyri ist for a number of o ng . In 1901, the t
rio were apparently the fir I Bia k 10 ign a year con-
tract form nthly tipends agai n t their royaltie wit h a
Tin Pan lley publi her, Jo eph W . tern and om -
pany . They wrote ong for uc~ white tar _Lilliam
Ru el Anna Held and May Irwin, guaranteeing uc-
ce . Didn 't He Ramble, one of u h ong , i popu lar
with bra band . The trio al o wrote ong that were
publi hed in The ladie Home Journal and Etude.
SCOTT JOPLIN (1868- 1917) wa the King . Born in
Te ark na , Te a , he had a tron bac k round in
mu ic, for ea h memember of hi family wa an a .om-
pli hed mu ician . He taught hi m elf to play the p_,ano
with enough e perti e t ha t he bega n to tu d y with a
German in tructor in the area . T here, he gai ned a n ap-
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LOUIS 'SATCHMO', ARMSTRONG
Our of the 1lum1 of N rw Otlraru, Lou11 "Sa1chmo" Arm1rrong
r~ 10 1hr top in the world of 1u1.
His trumpet and grnrl vo, r and hi, inim,11blr s1ylc and shot\'·
man1hip ca1apul1rd him inro 1hr ranks of musical immortalory over a
arrc:r spanning almoJI 60 years
Durint his carttr , Sa1Chmo became • comp<>Kr, played in mo re
rhan a doun mo•in and recorded more than 1,)00 songs
me,
tilir " H,ello, Dolly! " sold more rti.n • m11t,on r«o rds .
He made his fim concur rour abroad in 19 2 10 [ni: la AJ , and 11
1chdmou1h, la1e1 sho11•
ened to tchmo.
was there 1h11 he acqu1~ rhe no knam
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