jackson clyde owen (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing. A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of black spirituals as they lead to African-American classical composers. Jackson himself was a journalist, author, composer, community activist, and postal worker. Among other things, in 1978, he became the Galveston's first Black postmaster, where he served until 1984. While enrolled at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Jackson grew close to composer William L. Dawson, then a professor and director of the schools choir, known as the Golden Voices and later he Jackson founded Tuskegee's alumni choir and served as interim director for the Golden Voices between 1992-96 and 2000-04. Bibliography. 54 pp. Very good in a good dust jacket (foxing to endpapers, several chips to the edges and fold of front flap).

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing. A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of black spirituals as they lead to African-American classical composers. Jackson himself was a journalist, author, composer, community activist, and postal worker. Among other things, in 1978, he became the Galveston's first Black postmaster, where he served until 1984. While enrolled at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Jackson grew close to composer William L. Dawson, then a professor and director of the schools choir, known as the Golden Voices and later he Jackson founded Tuskegees alumni choir and served as interim director for the Golden Voices between 1992-96 and 2000-04. Bibliography. 54 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket (small chips to the dj).

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Inscribed by the author. First edition, stated. Foxing/staining has occurred on the edges of the pages. Pages are tanning. Wear, creases, and tears to the jacket.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 95pp. Very slightly ex-library with deaccession rubberstamp of Emory University to front pastedown, just a hint of shelf wear, else Very Good or better. African-American author's self-published novel, "The story of a lonely spinster who found love, after all." At the time of publication the author was a manager for the United States Postal Service in Houston, Texas. Quite uncommon: OCLC locates five copies as of August, 2017, at NYU, UC Davis, Emory, Union County Public Library (NC), and the Rosenberg Library (TX).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 75, [2]pp. Neat owner's name, last few leaves slightly mistrimmed by the printer, else about fine in near fine dust jacket. Vanity press published prescription for Civil Rights, described on the jacket: "A black writer tells how humanism and Christianity can unite America." The author was a graduate of Tuskegee University who served as glee club director at Texas Southern University.