James Weldon Johnson : songwriter

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

James Weldon Johnson : songwriter

Entry/Object ID

Library.2075

Tags

Library JAMM as of June 4, 2023

Description

209 pages ; 23 cm James Weldon Johnson : songwriter by Don Cusic. Includes bibliographical references (198-199) and index. JAMM Selected contents: James Weldon Johnson : Background -- Black entertainers in the late 19th century -- Ernest Hogan -- Song: All coons look alike to me -- Williams and Walker -- Bob Cole -- Johnson Brothers in New York -- Back to Jacksonville -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Back to New York -- Jacksonville : Final parting -- Politics -- Theatrical production company -- Shoo-fly regiment -- James Reese Europe -- Red moon -- Johnson returns to New York -- ASCAP -- Lyrics (including Lift Every Voice) -- Bibliography -- Index. Summary: As a songwriter, James Weldon Johnson is best known for "Lift Every Voice," which he wrote with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. However, during the early 1900s he was part of one of the most popular and successful songwriting teams in America. Johnson, along with his brother, Rosamond, and Bob Cole wrote hit songs for musicals during the ragtime era, 1895-1910. Later, he became one of the most prominent African-Americans in the United States before World War II. He was a diplomat, the author of a novel (The Autobiography of a Colored Man), poet ("God's Trombones"), Civil Rights leader (the first black Executive Secretary of the NAACP), an active member of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s and a distinguished Professor at Fisk University. Most of James Weldon Johnson's songs have not been heard for over a hundred years because he wrote during the era of sheet music. Now, for the first time, here is a collection of Johnson's lyrics and an extended biographical essay on him as a songwriter.-Amazon.com.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Search Terms

Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938., African American composers -- United States -- 19th century -- Biography., African American composers -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography., Jacksonville Area Music Museum (JAMM).

Publication Details

Author

Cusic, Don, author.

Publisher

Brackish Publishing

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Nashville, TN

Call No.

ML 410 .J68 C87 2013

ISBN

9780985556181