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William L. Dawson

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William L. Dawson is recognized for his genre-defining choral spirituals and for his Negro Folk Symphony, a masterpiece enjoying a twenty-first-century renaissance. Gwynne Kuhner Brown's engaging and tirelessly researched biography reintroduces a musical leader whose legacy is more important today than ever. Born in 1899, Dawson studied at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He worked as a church, jazz, and orchestral musician in Kansas City and Chicago in the 1920s while continuing his education as a composer. He then joined the Tuskegee faculty, where for 25 years he led the Tuskegee Institute Choir to national prominence through performances of spirituals at the opening of Radio City Music Hall, on radio and television, and at the White House. The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski premiered Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony in 1934. Engaging and long overdue, William L. Dawson celebrates a pioneering Black composer whose contributions to African American music, history, and education inspire performers and audiences to this day.
Gwynne Kuhner Brown is a professor of music at the University of Puget Sound.
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Early Life Chapter 2. Tuskegee Chapter 3. Vocal Music Chapter 4. Instrumental Music Chapter 5. After Tuskegee Notes Select Discography Works Sources and Bibliography Index
"Gwynne Kuhner Brown has given us an excellent book chronicling the life of one of America's greatest composers. The thoughtful research into his education and career provides a stunning account that is easy to understand."--Marques L. A. Garrett, editor of The Oxford Book of Choral Music by Black Composers
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