Heading: (African American, 1938 â€â€œ Music)
Author: Still, William Grant; and Verna Arvey
Title: Negro Music in the Americas - La musique neÃŒ€gre aux AmeÃŒÂriques
Place Published: Brussels, Belgium
Publisher:R.I.M.
Date Published: May-June 1938
Description: Revue Internationale de Musique, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.280-288. Original wrappers. Also includes;
Arvey, Verna. Outstanding Achievements of Negro Composers, The Etude Music Magazine. March 1942, pp. 171 and 210. Illustrated with a photograph of the author's husband, composer William Grant.
Still and Arvey's brief declaration of the enormous significance of Negro music (followed by a short chronological bibliography extracted from a booklet by Harlem Renaissance guru Alain Locke) is a forgotten rarity, written in Los Angeles but published in Europe. It is deserving of special note - if only because its co-author, African American William Grant Still, is now remembered as "The Dean of African American Composers" who produced 200 musical works including five symphonies, four ballets and nine operas.A year after its publication, Still married his co-author, a Russian-Jewish pianist and writer who was a close friend of George Gershwin's. She would later write the 1942 article which unabashedly mentions her highly gifted husband, as well as Harry Burleigh and R. Nathaniel Dett, modern Black classical composers. Before his death in 1978, Still would indeed be celebrated, credited with many firsts both as classical composer and orchestral conductor. And Arvey would go on to write his posthumous biography.

Moderate soil and slight wear to covers; very good.