Negro Musicians and their Music
Washington, D.C. The Associated Publishers, 1936. Hardcover octavo (5-1/2 x 8-5/8 inches). Navy cloth with titles printed in black to top board and spine. xii, 439pp. First Edition of this pioneering study of African-American musicology, one of the first produced from a Black author. Maud Cuney-Hare was a piano player, instructor, author, and musicologist. A student at the prestigious New England Conservatory, she became and influential figure in early 20th-century Black Boston, becoming close with W.E.B. Du Bois -- with whom she was briefly engaged and in whose journal The Crisis she published a music column.
Negro Musicians and their Music would become her best-known work, although she died of cancer after completing the proofreading stage in the year of its publication, and so never saw it brought forth. Boards soiled; rubbed about edges, with spots of fray to corners; hinges weakening but binding still sits square; previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper in black ink; some scattered notation and marginalia in pencil with some dog-eared pages; Good only. Item #3537
Price: $150.00