Extremely rare 1878 First Edition copy of Music And The Highly Musical People ,Remarkable Colored Musicians, by James W, Trotter, [Black author] with illus of him, Boston Lee & Shepherd. 353 pp and 2nd part 152 pp. 12 illus of black singers & Musicians, with other illustrations. There are chapters on musicians from New Orleans, Chicago, Newark, St Louis, Memphis, Nashville, etc. Here are some of the musicians: Eliz Taylor Greenfield [the black swan], Thomas Bowers, [The American Mario], Blind Tom, the Colored American Opera Company, Georgia Minstrels, Jubilee Singers [Fisk University], Frank Johnson and His Favorite Military orchestra, and 30 others -- along with 162 pages of serious music works by Black composers from the authors collection, words and music. Pictorial. Cloth with musical Instruments in gold. Bookplate of William Buckner 1917., Scarce, saw only one other copy available. A great book of Black American musical history
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