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题名/责任者:

Can't stand still : Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance / Michael K. Johnson.

出版发行项:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]

出版发行项:

?2019

ISBN:

9781496821959

ISBN:

9781496821966

载体形态项:

vi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

变异题名:

Cannot stand still

其他载体形态:

Online version: Johnson, Michael K. (Michael Kyle), 1963- author. Can't stand still Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019] 9781496821973

丛编说明:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

丛编统一题名:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.

个人责任者:

Johnson, Michael K. (Michael Kyle), 1963- author.

个人名称主题:

Gordon, Taylor,-1893-1971.

论题主题:

African Americans-Biography.

论题主题:

African American singers-Biography.

论题主题:

Harlem Renaissance-History.

中图法分类号:

K837.125.76

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

Growing up in White Sulphur Springs, Montana (1893-1910) -- Ringling's niggah (1910-16) -- The tenors went one way (1916-19) -- Syncopation (1919-24) -- Carlo -- A program of Negro spirituals -- Robeson, Hayes, Bledsoe, and Gordon -- Performances and parties (1926-27), part I -- Performances and parties (1926-27), part II -- Sex and the single spirituals singer -- Born to be (1928-29) -- Parties and performances (1929-34) -- Breaking me down (1934-48) -- Invisible man (1948-59).

摘要附注:

"Born in 1893 into the only African American family in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, Emmanuel Taylor Gordon (1893-1971) became an internationally famous singer in the 1920s at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. With his musical partner, J. Rosamond Johnson, Gordon was a crucially important figure in popularizing African American spirituals as an art form, giving many listeners their first experience of black spirituals. Despite his fame, Taylor Gordon has been all but forgotten, until now. Michael K. Johnson illuminates Gordon's personal history and his cultural importance to the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, arguing that during the height of his celebrity, Gordon was one of the most significant African American male vocalists of his era. Gordon's story--working in the White Sulphur Springs brothels as an errand boy, traveling the country in John Ringling's private railway car, performing on vaudeville stages from New York to Vancouver to Los Angeles, performing for royalty in England, becoming a celebrated author with a best-selling 1929 autobiography, and his long bout of mental illness--adds depth to the history of the Harlem Renaissance and makes him one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century. Through detailed documentation of Gordon's career--newspaper articles, reviews, letters, and other archival material--the author demonstrates the scope of Gordon's cultural impact. The result is a detailed account of Taylor's musical education, his career as a vaudeville performer, the remarkable performance history of Johnson and Gordon, his status as an in-demand celebrity singer and author, his time as a radio star, and, finally, his descent into madness. Can't Stand Still brings Taylor Gordon back to the center of the stage."--Provided by publisher.

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