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The Exile's Song - Edmond Dede and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,856
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The Exile's Song - Edmond Dede and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World (Hardcover): Sally McKee

The Exile's Song - Edmond Dede and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World (Hardcover)

Sally McKee

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The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond Dede, raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France In 1855, Edmond Dede, a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France's best classical musicians and went on to spend thirty-six years in Bordeaux leading the city's most popular orchestras. How did this African American, raised in the biggest slave market in the United States, come to compose ballets for one of the best theaters outside of Paris and gain recognition as one of Bordeaux's most popular orchestra leaders? Beginning with his birth in antebellum New Orleans in 1827 and ending with his death in Paris in 1901, Sally McKee vividly recounts the life of this extraordinary man. From the Crescent City to the City of Light and on to the raucous music halls of Bordeaux, this intimate narrative history brings to life the lost world of exiles and travelers in a rapidly modernizing world that threatened to leave the most vulnerable behind.

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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2017
Authors: Sally McKee
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22136-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
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LSN: 0-300-22136-3
Barcode: 9780300221367

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