{"product_id":"eubie-blake-rags-rhythm-and-race-9780190635930","title":"Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm, and Race","description":"A new biography of one of the key composers of 20th-century American popular song and jazz, \u003cem\u003eEubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates Blake's little-known impact on over 100 years of American culture. A gifted musician, Blake rose from performing in dance halls and bordellos of his native Baltimore to the heights of Broadway. In 1921, together with performer and lyricist Noble Sissle, Blake created \u003cem\u003eShuffle Along\u003c\/em\u003e which became a sleeper smash on Broadway eventually becoming one of the top ten musical shows of the 1920s. Despite many obstacles \u003cem\u003eShuffle Along\u003c\/em\u003e integrated Broadway and the road and introduced such stars as Josephine Baker, Lottie Gee, Florence Mills, and Fredi Washington. It also proved that black shows were viable on Broadway and subsequent productions gave a voice to great songwriters, performers, and spoke to a previously disenfranchised black audience. As successful as \u003cem\u003eShuffle Along\u003c\/em\u003e was, racism and bad luck hampered Blake's career. Remarkably, the third act of Blake's life found him heralded in his 90s at major jazz festivals, in Broadway shows, and on television and recordings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing not only Blake's extraordinary life and accomplishments, Broadway and popular music authorities Richard Carlin and Ken Bloom examine the professional and societal barriers confronted by black artists from the turn of the century through the 1980s. Drawing from a wealth of personal archives and interviews with Blake, his friends, and other scholars, \u003cem\u003eEubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race\u003c\/em\u003e offers an incisive portrait of the man and the musical world he inhabited.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Carlin\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Grammy Award-winning author of numerous books on popular music, including \u003cem\u003eCountry Music: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2019), \u003cem\u003eThe Big Book of Country\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), and \u003cem\u003eWorlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways\u003c\/em\u003e (2008). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKen Bloom\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Grammy Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eShow and Tell: The New Book of Broadway Anecdotes\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2016), \u003cem\u003eBroadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), and \u003cem\u003eBroadway: An Encyclopedia\u003c\/em\u003e (2004). He is the co-founder of Harbinger Records, has been a Broadway correspondent for NPR and the CBC, and has directed and produced shows at Town Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, among other venues.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50371854139666,"sku":"9780190635930","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7462404b-125c-4a1e-aa74-f7ddd4bcad24.jpg?v=1728539931","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eubie-blake-rags-rhythm-and-race-9780190635930","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}