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The Exile's Song
Sally McKee
其他書名
Edmond Dédé and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World
出版Yale University Press, 2017-01-03
主題Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing ArtsHistory / Modern / 19th CenturyHistory / Europe / France
ISBN03002246999780300224696
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OUnJDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond D d , raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France

In 1855, Edmond D d , 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.